Prehistoric
Where large animal paintings, created with natural pigments, were found.
What are the Lascaux caves?
Patterns found in art forms around the world.
What are archetypes?
This object allowed us to decipher the ancient Egyptian language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This philosopher started the fields of physics, biology, and psychology.
Who is Aristotle?
The brother who killed his twin in the founding myth of Rome.
Who is Romulus?
The oldest known monolith, which predates civilization.
A flat-topped pyramid.
What is a ziggurat?
This step was essential to pass on to the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This art form involves painting into wet plaster and letting it dry.
What is a fresco?
This leader named himself emperor and was killed by his closest friends.
Who is Julius Caesar?
A monolith with two or more standing stones and a single stone lying across.
What is a dolmen?
Inventors of the wheel, windmills, irrigation systems, selective breeding of plants, board games, and more.
The first female pharaoh in Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This war was indirectly caused by Eris, the Greek goddess of discord.
What is the Trojan War?
A style found in literature and other art forms that uses exaggeration, humor, and irony to aggressively criticize someone or something, seeking social change.
What is Juvenalian satire?
A piece of prehistoric portable art named after a Roman goddess and made of oolitic limestone.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
The origin of the saying, "An eye for an eye."
What is the Stele of Hammurabi?
The creator god in Egyptian mythology.
Who is Ra?
This man was prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother.
Who is Oedipus?
An ancient Roman poet who wrote the Roman epic, the Aeneid.
Who is Virgil?
Prehistoric figurines with both human and animal features.
What are zoomorphic portable art figurines?
The first "Hero's Journey" story.
What is the Great Sphinx of Giza?
A military tactic using a tight formation of soldiers and shields.
What is a phalanx?
Rome's first domed temple.