This event marked mankind's transition from hunter-gatherer nomads to settled farmers.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
100
This water feature cuts through the barren desert of North Africa, allowing for people to live and cultivate in this region of otherwise barren, arid land.
What is the Nile River?
100
Ancient Greek War fought by the Delian League of Athens, against the Peloponnesian League of Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
100
A group of archaic humans who lived around 40,000 years ago, they were among the first to bury their dead.
What are Neanderthals?
100
This region of the world was among the first major human settlements, and its name means "between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
200
A rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar weapons.
What is a Phalanx?
200
This Ancient Egyptian principle(s) of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice, also personified as a goddess of the same name.
What is ma'at or Maat?
200
Battle of the Persian war, led by Leonidas on the side of Athens and Sparta and Xerxes on the side of Persia where Leonidas dismissed the majority of the Greek Army in favor of a few hundred soldiers, namely 300 Spartans who fought to the death.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
200
This era, often referred to as the "new stone age," is remembered as the time where humans began to settle and farm.
What is the Neolithic Age?
200
This epic poem, from Mesopotamia, is often regarded as the earliest surviving work of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
Formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, composed of symbols, logos and alphabetic elements
What are hieroglyphics?
300
The Period from 2050-1653 B.C., characterized by the Pharaoh's new concern for the people.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
300
The citizens of this ancient city-state were trained in the discipline and honor of the warrior society from a young age.
What is Sparta?
300
Archaeologists can learn a great deal about an ancient culture or society through uncovering and studying these.
What is an artifact?
300
A key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia. The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks,
What is Babylon?
400
A belief system characterized by the worship of multiple different gods.
What is Polytheistic?
400
Daughter of King Thutmose I, she was depicted a male in numerous historical images as a man. She was the third woman to become a Pharaoh of Egypt in 3,000 years of Ancient Egyptian History.
Who is Hatshepsut?
400
This renowned conqueror hailed from Macedonia, the son of King Phillip II and can boast conquering Persia in 331 B.C.
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
A period in early human history where humans grouped together in small societies such as bands, and subsisted by gathering plants and fishing, hunting or scavenging wild animals.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
400
These two modern countries make up what was once known as Mesopotamia.
What are Iraq and Iran?
500
Well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology)
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
Djoser's vizier_______________conceived of building a tomb for his king by stacking mastabas on top of one another to form the shape now known as the Step Pyramid.
Who is Imhotep?
500
A congress of states met at Corinth in late autumn of 481 BC, and a confederate alliance of Greek city-states was formed.
What is the Hellenic Alliance?
500
A well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE.
What is Otzi the Iceman?
500
These people made up one of the world's first civilizations, and are believed to have established the world's first system of writing.