West Asia
The writing system of the Akkadians.
What is cuneiform?
The merchant and priest who sailed to Phoenicia in search of cedar to construct a boat?
Who is Wen-Amon?
The Athenian historian of the fifth century BCE who documents the Plague of Athens in his The Peloponnesian Wars.
Who is Thucydides?
The first Roman ruler of the Roman Empire who ascended to power in 27 BCE.
Who is Octavian/Augustus?
The term that denotes the act of a slave owner freeing his/her slave.
What is manumission?
The region of West Asia with biodiversity, rivers, and marshlands that gave rise to agriculture, the first libraries, and the initial formation of the city-states, such as Sumer.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A rough estimate on the number of years separating the construction of the Pyramids of Giza and the reign of Cleopatra.
What is approximately 2,500 years?
The written language system found on tablets in Mycenaean palace complexes.
What is Linear B?
The date the Romans took both Corinth and Carthage.
What is 146 BCE?
The costly military campaign that took place in the Western Mediterranean between 218 and 202 BCE.
What is the Second Punic War?
A Canaanite people split between two concurrently existing kingdoms in the Levant and subscribed to a monotheistic religious belief system.
Who are the Ancient Israelites?
The Egyptian word for inner essence or soul that is mentioned in Instructions of Ptahhotep.
What is ka?
The fifth-century Athenian statesman who implemented the citizenship law that states both parents must be Athenian for someone to be considered a legal Athenian citizen.
Who is Pericles?
One of the many oeuvres of Cicero, where he talks about the various roles of a citizen, the development of the constitution, and the form of government adopted by the Romans.
What is De re pubblica?
The first Athenian lawmaker of the seventh century known for instituting extremely harsh punishments.
Who is Draco?
Another Mesopotamian city-state that was formed in the North and prospered through a long and elaborate trading network through Anatolia and the Levant.
What is Assyria?
A geographic characteristic of Egypt that is filled with water from and to the west of the Nile River.
What is the Fayuum Depression/Faiyum Oasis?
The "splinter" kingdom of the Seleucid Kingdom that was founded by eunuch Philetaerus in the late third century BCE and its capital being Pergamon in Asia Minor.
What is the Attalid Kingdom?
The first codification of Roman law from the 5th century BCE.
What are the Twelve Tables?
The 200-year-long period characterized as the pacification of the Mediterranean basin.
What is Pax Romana?
The number of languages spoken in Late-Bronze-Age Ugarit.
What is seven?
Double points if you can name all seven! Any team can answer and steal the points of the initial team. >:)
The name of the timeframe between 1730 and 1550 BCE in which central authority collapsed and the political system of Egypt was fragmented.
What is the Second Intermediate Period?
The island of the silver and gold mines that was invaded by people of Samos in 524 BCE.
What is Sifnos?
The battle (and year) that marks the Roman victory over the Kingdom of Macedon.
What is the Battle of Pydna of 168 BCE?
The Roman term (in Latin) for large landed estates that specialized in agricultural production.
What is latifundia?