Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient China
Ancient Rome
100
A period of ten years.
What is a decade?
100
One who held ceremonies to please the gods.
What is a priest?
100
A "lover of wisdom."
What is a philosopher?
100
A succession of rulers from a single family.
What is a dynasty?
100
In ancient Rome, a person who fought people or animals for public entertainment.
What is a gladiator?
200
A large temple that is used to honor Mesopotamia's gods.
What is a ziggurat?
200
What the Egyptians called their country, referring to it's fertile soil.
What is the Black Land?
200
A Greek with the right to participate in government.
What is a citizen?
200
A group of non-elected government officials.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
Basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes.
What is a philosophy?
300
The early part of human history, also known as the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic age?
300
God of cemeteries and embalming, guardian of the land of the dead, and symbol is a priest wearing a head of a jackal.
What is Anubis?
300
A carved human statue.
What is a Caryatid?
300
A system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius.
What is Confucianism?
300
A curved ceiling made of arches.
What is a vault?
400
A long period of extreme cold on Earth.
What is an Ice Age?
400
A culture that has developed systems of religion, learning, and government.
What is a civilization?
400
Rule by the few.
What is an oligarchy?
400
The belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
400
A lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life.
What is an ode?
500
The study of human culture and how it develops over time.
What is anthropology?
500
An early Egyptian Tomb.
What is a mastaba?
500
Athenian playwright who wrote comedies.
What is Aristophanes?
500
A member of an upper class of society, usually made of hereditary nobility.
What is an aristocrat?
500
An area of open space that served as the commercial and social center where people met to socialize, and businesses sold their goods.
What is the Forum?
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