African Societies
Nubia
These stepped temples are a defining architectural style in Mesopotamia
Ziggurats
The feathered serpent deity is known by these two names
Kukulcan and Quetzalcoatl
Interpreted by some as offshoots of Hinduism, these two major ideologies developed during the Second Urbanization
Buddhism and Jainism
Mortimer Wheeler falsely believed that Central Asians invaded and destroyed this major city, hastening the downfall of Mature Indus society
Mohenjo-daro
Pharoahs ascended to god-king status in this period
Old Kingdom
A period of wide-scale societal disruption which occurred between metallic ages
the Bronze Age Collapse
Colossal heads and werejaguars are associated with this culture
Rice agriculture tends to appear in areas prone to this kind of seasonal weather
Monsoon, heavy rains, flooding
Robust australopithecines were quickly excavated using this destructive technique
Dynamite
This group of possibly iron-yielding West Africans migrated east and south beginning ca. 3000 BCE
Bantu (Bantu expansion)
The writing system from ancient Mesopotamia, for which bones of our feet are named
Cuneiform
Near Chichén Itzá, this notable sinkhole has yielded remains of human sacrifices along with other ritual items
Cenote Sagrado
The two earliest forms of Chinese script
Oracle bone script and bronze script
Locals sold ground up powders of these artifacts as medicine
Oracle bones
Mansa Musa was the extraordinarily wealthy ruler of this empire
Mali Empire
Ur-Nammu is known for creating this oldest document, which was later updated by Hammurabi
Law code
These reliefs likely depict Aztec victims of torture or sacrifice, despite the name
Los Danzantes
This script may have been used to communicate across language barriers
Indus script
This museum, known for claiming the controversial Parthenon marbles, recently lost around 2000 artifacts
The British Museum
European ethnocentrists denied that these ruins from southern Africa were built by Africans
Great Zimbabwe
The culture described hundreds of years later in the Iliad and Odyssey
Mycenaean
Skulls of sacrificial victims were here displayed
Tzompantli
The temples of Angkor were meant to evoke this legendary landscape
Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods
Initial investigations of Kennewick Man suggested that he may be descended from this modern-day Japanese group
Ainu