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100
The first version of this item, was created during this time period, the Egyptian version of this the Khopesh was curved. Other versions include Excalibur
What is The Sword?
100
This form of forced labor was developed in the Middle East during the Bronze Age in order to create a stable efficient workforce.
What is Slavery?
100
A tool (or machine) used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil. Usually pulled by animals, this tool was extensively used in combination with oxen in the Bronze Age.
What is the plow?
100
The Persian version of this featured spikes additionally in Greek mythology Achilles dragged Hector's body while on one of these.
What is The Chariot
100
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one whose location has not been definitely established.According to legend, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were created during the Bronze Age by Emperor Nebuchadnezzar II the King Of Babylon, for the Persian wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
200
A piece of armor, formed of a single or multiple pieces of metal or other rigid material, which covers the front of the torso, the Bronze version of this was used by the Europeans during the Bronze Age.
What is the Cuirass/Body armor?
200
Money in any form when in actual use or circulation, as a medium of exchange. First used in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, grains and copper ingots were a form of this. After the creation of bronze, civilizations such as China began using the bronze version of this in their transactions.
What is minted currency?
200
Known as the artificial application of water to the land or soil, this technique was developed by the River Valley civilizations(Indus, Sumer, etc.) in order to effectively water their crops.
What is irrigation?
200
Scraps of these were used to vote in Ancient Greece. A wheel for making this was developed during this period.
What is Pottery
200
A prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury, it has been theorized by archaeologists that this was erected during the Bronze Age, or sometime close to it.
What is Stonehenge?
300
An implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood; to harvest timber; as a weapon; and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. During the Bronze Age this was in use in Ireland and was soon developed into the flanged axe after a change in hafting methods.
What is the Flat Axe?
300
After the development of agriculture, people began to settle down. By the time of the Bronze Age, several towns and cities already existed around rivers, and fertile land. Name the process by which this expansion of human settlements occured.
What is Urbanization?
300
A hand-held agricultural tool with a curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock, this tool was modified during the Bronze Age to further enhance its harvesting capabilities.
What is the sickle?
300
The development of this aided in the recording of history and soon cultures developed as intellectuals penned them upon stone and bronze tablets instead of the usual transmission through word of mouth. Archaeologists have found the ancient version of this to be very useful in the analyzation of ancient cultures and civilizations.
What is Writing and Literature?
300
The oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt, it is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built during the Bronze Age as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BCE.
What is the Pyramid of Giza?
400
Used in combination with a shield by the Bronze Age cultures, this weapon was a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. After the creation of bronze, this weapon was much more effective and deadly than its predecessors.
What is the Spear?
400
Produced out of the development of agriculture, this force was able to advance in other fields since all members of society no longer needed to focus on the providing of food. The Sumerians are sometimes credited with having created this force.
What is the specialized labor force?
400
A wooden beam normally used between a pair of oxen or other animals to enable them to pull together on a load when working in pairs, this tool along with a set of reins was used by the Sumerians in farming.
What is the yoke?
400
A domain of materials science and materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. In the Bronze Age, this technique was developed by the Indus Valley and Chinese civilizations, and extensively used to create both alloys and items out of them.
What is Metallurgy/Metalsmithing?
400
During this age, many river valley civilizations developed as well as the development of several technologies and innovations and the creation of the bronze alloy. It lasted from about 3600 - 600 BC, though some regions started later, this encompasses all of them?
What is the Bronze Age ?
500
A small hand-powered projectile weapon, this was used by the Greeks in fighting the Trojan War during the Bronze Age.
What is the Slingshot?
500
The process whereby a population of living organisms is changed at the genetic level, through generations of selective breeding, to accentuate traits that ultimately benefit humans. This was done to sheep and goats by the Sumerians as a source of meat and wool. In other areas, this was done to cows and chickens.
What is the domestication of livestock/domestication?
500
The high-yield agricultural practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land, in the absence rotation through other crops. This technique was used by early farmers, and while reaping initial benefits, it would soon drain the soil of nutrients.
What is mono-cropping?
500
An alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and tough. However, historical pieces were often made interchangeably of brasses (copper and zinc).
What is Bronze?
500
Known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey), and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction in 401. It was built and destroyed during the Bronze Age, and rebuilding was finished 1o years later.
What is the Temple of Artemis?
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