Polytheism - beliefs & practices

What ancient civilization believed that the afterlife would be the best yet! They spent much of their time on earth preparing for the afterlife.

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• Greece

• Aztec

What ancient civilization believed in living a good life in hopes of becoming an ancestor spirit?

• Rome

• Inca

• Mesopotamia

• West & Central Africa

What ancient civilization believed that when you died you had to cross the River Styx so you were buried with a coin to pay the ferryman?

• Greece

• Mesopotamia

• Rome

• Egypt

What ancient civilization only allowed priests to enter the ziggurat?

• West & Central Afria

• Rome

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

The Pharaoh was believed to be a God in human form living on earth AND the leader of the government.

• Greece

• Mesopotamia

• Inca

• Egypt

People who lived farthest away from the ziggurat were the least powerful and least wealthy.

• Egypt

• Maya

• Mesopotamia

• Aztec

Workers helped to build pyramids, where Pharaohs and important people would be buried.

• Mesopotamia

• Maya

• Greece

• Egypt

Each city-state had a patron god or goddess as a protector.

• Rome

• Greece

• Inca

• Mesopotamia

People lived each day to please the gods. The gods could make good things happen or bad things happen. (select all that apply)

• Mesopotamia

• Greece

• Rome

• Egypt

This civilization practiced human sacrifice, rather than just grains, foods, and animals.

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Aztec

• Greece