These are the approximate dates of the time we call Ancient Civilization.
What is 10,000 BCE to 450 BCE?
100
Sumerian city-states grew around these.
What are temples or ziggurats?
100
There is evidence that this ancient civilization build sewers, wells, and baths.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization.
100
This ancient civilization built elaborate tombs for it's leaders which were stocked with items that would be needed in the afterlife.
What is Ancient Egypt?
100
This ancient civilization was known for Hammurabi's code and its Hanging Gardens.
What is Babylon?
200
This allowed for a new way of living that we know as farming.
What is domestication?
200
These were the four main social classes in Ancient Sumer.
What are slaves, lower class, upper class, priests?
200
Many ancient civilizations grew near this environmental feature.
What is a river?
200
There is evidence that these were used to build some of the massive structures of ancient civilizations.
What is slaves?
200
This ancient civilization is know for establishing the first library.
What is Assyria?
300
Farming allowed for surplus food production and population intensification which allowed for this to occur.
(Hint: weavers, masons, potters, scribes, traders, priests...)
What is job specialization?
300
These are evidence that the people of the Indus Valley kept records and traded with other civilizations.
What are seals?
300
Evidence supports that the Ancient Mayan civilization was interested in astronomy. It created this to keep track of time.
What is the Mayan Calendar?
300
Ancient China is known for its inventions. Name three.
What is pasta, porcelain, bronze, silk cloth....?
300
This ancient civilization was built on the Mediterranean Sea, was known for its shipbuilding, and was called "carriers of civilization" because if its widespread trade.
What is Phoenicia?
400
These are problems associated with a farming society.
What are: 1. Possible famine due to crop failure 2. Accumulated garbage and sewer that can lead to diseases 3. Class divisions that lead to inequalities
400
These are two pieces of evidence from Ancient China that show that war/fighting was present in that civilization.
What are the 118 foot thick walls around the capital city and bronze swords?
400
We looked at evidence of irrigation canals that this ancient civilization build for farming.
What is Sumer?
400
The Ancient Mayans used this number system.
What is base 20?
400
This ancient civilization invented an alphabet that is considered to be the basis of the alphabet we use today.
What is Phoenicia?
500
These are the seven elements of civilization.
What are 1. Cities 2. Central governments and Laws 3. Writing and Record-keeping 4. Specialized jobs 5.Social classes 6. Complex technologies 7. Highly organized religions
500
The House of the Governor is associated with this ancient civilization's government.
What is the Ancient Mayan Civilization?
500
These ancient people build burial mounds of earth, sod, sand, and mud over wood structures that served as temples or crypts.
What are the Mound Builders?
500
There is evidence that some ancient civilization religious systems were based on the belief in many gods. This has a name.