Egypt
Around 3000 BC was the first known use of what paper-like material by the Egyptians?
Papyrus
His name lives on in the form of an oath of ethics taken by medical practitioners. Which ancient Greek physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Hippocrates
Which Roman figure was killed on March 15, 44 BCE?
Julius Caesar
This river, along with the Euphrates, was crucial to the development of Mesopotamian civilization.
Tigris
This ancient trade route connected China with the West, allowing the exchange of silk, spices, and ideas.
The Silk Road
Famously burned by Julius Caesar, one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world was founded in the third century BC in what Egyptian city?
Alexandria
The Olympics were held in Greece to honor which deity?
Zeus
The death of which Egyptian ruler resulted in Roman control of Alexandria?
Cleopatra (the last one)
What writing system that used clay tablets and reed styluses was developed by the Sumerians ca. 3000-3500 BCE?
Cuneiform
Ancient Chinese medicine is based on the balance of these two opposite but complementary forces.
Yin and Yang
What is the name of one of the only female pharaohs of Egypt, reigning from around 1478 BC until she died in 1458 BC?
Hatshepsut
Alexander the Great’s corpse was reportedly mellified. Mellification refers to the practice of embalming a corpse with which substance?
Honey
Although there is little evidence that it genuinely happened, which Roman emperor is said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned during the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD?
Nero
This Babylonian king created one of the world’s first written legal codes, famously carved on a stone stele for all to see.
Hammurabi
This dynasty, which ruled from around 1600–1046 BCE, is known for its bronze work and the earliest known Chinese writing.
Shang Dynasty
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus was written in the 17th century BC in Egypt and contains the earliest recorded reference to which organ of the body?
Brain
"The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs" is one of many fables credited to what storyteller of ancient Greece?
Aesop
Roman geese helped protect the city of Rome from invasion by the Gauls in 4 BCE by honking loudly and alerting the Romans of the attack. In honor of this, the Romans erected a temple of which goddess to whom the geese were sacred?
Juno
This class of people in Mesopotamia was responsible for recording laws, trade, and religious texts using cuneiform.
Scribes
This philosophy, founded by Laozi, emphasized living in harmony with nature and "the Way."
Daoism/Taoism
Khufu, the Pharaoh who famously built the Great Pyramid at Giza, was also known by what Greek "C" name?
Cheops
What is the name of the very first Greek mythological being/deity (according to Hesiod)?
Chaos
The year of Five emperors, where five different men claimed to be Emperor of Rome, was in which year?
193 CE
In Mesopotamian medicine, this organ was considered the seat of thought and emotion, unlike the brain in modern medicine.
Liver
During this dynasty’s golden age, Chinese culture flourished, poetry thrived, and the Silk Road expanded.
Tang Dynasty