West Asia
The first discovered, not first written, Old Babylonian legal code issued by a king where the parameters of propriety, family, criminal, and commercial law are explained.
What is the Law Code of Hammurabi?
Which Ancient Egyptian text was written for the son of the author in an attempt to persuade him to pursue the career of a scribe?
What is The Satire of the Trades?
Who is Thucydides?
The author of the Germania.
Who is Tacitus?
A composite word of two Greek terms that, when put together, means "the hatred/disdain of women."
What is misogyny?
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 vizier of the Old Kingdom of Egypt who wrote an instructional guide for his son, who would also assume the position of vizier, on how the youth should live properly in their younger years, helping us understand the social values of Ancient Egyptian society of the time.
Who is Ptahhotep?
The series of military campaigns recorded in Herodotus' History.
What are the Greco-Persian Wars?
What is De re pubblica?
Another term made up of two Greek words that points to the process of documenting, at least in an ancient context, characteristics, traditions, and behaviors of a particular group of people or race?
What is ethnography?
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 Ancient Egyptian concept of order, harmony, justice, and truth that is represented by a female Egyptian goddess.
What is Ma'at?
The process by which non-Greeks adopt the Greek language, culture, religion, and identity.
What is Hellenization?
The term that denotes the act of a slave owner freeing his/her slave.
A Latin term that means "best."
What is optimus?
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?
Name of Alexander the Great's general who took over the area of Egypt after the Greek Macedonian king's death.
Who is Ptolemy?
The large silver coin of Athens, with the head of Athena on the obverse and an owl on the reverse.
What is a tetradrachm?
The Roman term (in Latin) for large landed estates that specialized in agricultural production.
What is latifundia?
The name of a region of the Ancient World, whose appellation comes from the Greek "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
The categorization of various chronologies that affects our perception of time in the Ancient and Medieval World and resulted in the similar construction of chronological frameworks of Ancient West Asia and Ancient Egypt.
What is periodization?
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 syllabic language of the Ancient Greek World that predates Attic Greek, from which we have Mycenaean palace archives, but was also used in Thebes and Knossos.
What is Linear B?
The first codification of Roman law from the 5th century BCE.
What are the Twelve Tables?
The name of a strait in Greece that means "hot gates."
What is Thermopylae?