Pre-History
This is the place that humans evolved.
What is Africa?
This is regarded as the first civilization.
What is Sumer?
This is the political unit of Iron Age Greece and early Rome; known in Greek as a Polis.
What is a City-State?
This was the Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity and ended the ban on said religion in the 4th century CE.
Who was Constantine the Great?
Unlike Monotheism, this term is the belief in many gods?
What is Polytheism?
This is the longest period of human existence named for the simple stone tools made by early hominins dating back to 3.3 million years ago until roughly 12,000 years ago in some places.
What is the Paleolithic?
This was the first writing system 1st used by the Sumerians, later adopted by their neighbors.
What is Cuneiform?
This is the birthplace of Western Democracy.
What is Athens?
These were the Germanic tribes that invaded the Roman Empire from the east and north and would sack Rome and form kingdoms in Italy and Spain.
Who were the Goths?
This is a first hand account or a source written around the time of the events being described.
What is a Primary Source?
This is the period that followed the Mesolithic but predated the Chalcolithic; it is characterized by the birth of farming.
What is the Neolithic?
This period of poor economy, political chaos, and invasions by the "Sea Peoples" ended the Bronze Age.
This was Athens' primary cultural and political rival, located in the Peloponnese peninsula.
What is Sparta?
This was the most powerful institution in western and central Europe during the middle ages.
What is the Catholic Church?
This is a second hand account or a history written long after the events took place.
What is a Secondary Source?
This beverage is credited as one of the driving forces of early civilization.
What is beer?
This is one of the longest continuous civilizations in the world - centered around the Nile River in northern Africa.
What is Egypt?
This was the City-State that challenged Rome's dominance over the Mediterranean Sea. Rome fought three wars with its empire.
What was Carthage?
Marriage was seen as being more like this, in the middle ages.
What is a business contract?
This monotheistic, Abrahamic religion emerged out of the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century CE and was accompanied by an army that conquered much of North Africa, the middle east, central Asia, and parts of southern Europe in the next couple of centuries.
What is Islam?
Cities, social stratification, sedentary lifestyle, farming, urban planning, writing, and complex culture are characteristics of this.
What is Civilization?
Who were the Mycenaeans?
This was the full unofficial name of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire in Latin. Though not an official state title or name, it was used to signify the link between the Roman people and their government.
What was Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR)?
Difficulty conducting trade through this empire due to costs, poor infrastructure, and political disagreements led to the age of exploration and colonization.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
The famous Italian merchant, Marco Polo, traveled between 1271-1295, to this eastern empire ruled by this emperor.
What was the Mongol Empire and who was Kublai Khan?