Earliest People
Who are nomads.
This famous landmark which extends over 5,000 miles was initially built to protect the Chinese from northern invaders like the Mongols.
What is the great wall.
Phoenicians used the mucus from sea snails to create this rare color (rare in ancient times) which came to be associated with royalty.
What is purple.
This imaginary horizontal line at 0 degrees is used to measure latitude.
What is the equator.
These were built in ancient Egypt as burial monuments for the great pharaohs of ancient Egypt. They included the bodies of the deceased pharaohs and all the things the pharaohs might need for the afterlife.
What are the Great Pyramids.
A device invented in ancient times for lifting water from a river onto land.
What is a shaduf.
This "road" established in Ancient China was a famous series of trade routes that connected the East and West and made it possible for different peoples to trade a wide variety of goods.
What is the Silk Road.
The Phoenicians were skilled at building these, which made travel and trade easy for them.
What are ships/boats.
According to traditional etiquette rules, when a man and woman meet for the first time, it is proper for this person to be the one who extends their hand out for a handshake first.
Who is the woman.
This statue of a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human was created to protect the gold jewelry and other valuable possessions of the pharaohs that were buried along side them.
What is the Great Sphinx.
This is the name for the paper Egyptians made out of reeds and wrote on in ink.
What is papyrus.
This is when one family continues to rule a country or empire for generations.
What is a dynasty.
This creation was the Phoenician's greatest contribution to the world. It led to getting rid of glyphs (picture writing).
What is the alphabet.
This imaginary vertical line is used to measure longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian.
People with this job study ancient civilizations by digging sites and analyzing artifacts and other remains.
What is an archaelogist.
This is the name for when Sumerians carved their picture-writing into tables of wet clay.
What is cuneiform.
During this dynasty, the Chinese began to use bronze to make weapons, wheels, and farming tools, and writing with pictograms was also used for the first time.
What is the Shang dynasty.
What is Carthage.
This device invented by the ancient Chinese became very important for navigation and exploration.
What is a magnetic compass (just "compass" is acceptable).
This wonder of the ancient world was built under King Nebuchadnezzar and are thought to have been located in modern day Iraq.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The Fertile Crescent is the land located around these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The people of China first lived between these two rivers.
What are the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
The Phoenician civilization ended when it was conquered by this Macedonian king around the year 325 B.C.
Who is Alexander the Great.
The people of ancient China had this kind of social structure meaning that the people were divided into different classes.
What is hierarchical.
The oldest person in the history of the world lived this long.
What is 969 years.