Stages 17 & 18 Culture

Question 1

What is the color of natural glass?

Answer 1

Green to bluish green

Question 2

What property was discovered about glass?

Answer 2

Excellent refractor of light

Question 3

What building profited from glass windows?

Answer 3

The thermae

Question 4

First three ruling groups before romans?

Answer 4

Egyptians, persians, greeks

Question 5

Five items imported from rome to egypt

Answer 5

Papyrus, gold, marble, granite, grain

Question 6

Three gods worshipped in rome

Answer 6

Serapis, isis, osiris

Question 7

What family ruled Alexandria after alexander and for how long

Answer 7

Ptolemy, next 300 years

Question 8

Who was last in the ptolemaic line?

Answer 8

Cleopatra

Question 9

When did Egypt become a roman province?

Answer 9

30 B.C.

Question 10

What was the main street in alexandria?

Answer 10

Canopus street

Question 11

How wide was this street?

Answer 11

100 feet

Question 12

What was the area that contained temples, administrative offices, and gardens

Answer 12

The royal quarter

Question 13

What was the caesareum?

Answer 13

A shrine begun by cleopatra

Question 14

What was the caesareum intended to honor?

Answer 14

Marc Antony

Question 15

Who dedicated it to himself?

Answer 15

Emperor augustus

Question 16

What six nationalities in alexandria?

Answer 16

Egyptians, jews, romans, africans, indians and the greeks

Question 17

What group was most powerful?

Answer 17

The greeks

Question 18

True or false claudius wrote an angry letter to the alexandrians

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What is glass made from?

Answer 19

Sand, plant ash or natron and lime