Pre-History
This early human lived in Europe and earned the nickname "cave-man."
What is Neanderthal?
Herders, like the Biblical David, used a small and light weapon to fire stones at enemies, called this.
What is a sling?
These impressive and massive monuments were the final resting places of the Egyptian Pharaohs and still stand today in Egypt.
What are the Pyramids?
By attacking and destroying the Myceneaens, this mysterious group ended the Bronze Age and started the Greek Dark Ages
Who are the Sea Peoples?
This man, the first emperor of Rome, reformed the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
Who is Augustus?
This early human's name means "Southern Ape of Africa."
What is Au Africanus?
Women in the Ancient World were considered old enough to be married and have children at this age.
What is 10/11 years old?
Lumber, olive oil, grain, and this fourth product, used for its alcoholic effects, were traded widely during the Bronze Age.
What is wine?
This is the name for an independent Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
Germans who migrated to Rome in the Late Empire were given land and known as this term, which means "friends."
What are federates?
This human species invented clothing and bows and arrows, allowing them to migrate around the whole world.
What is H Sapiens (Modern Humans)?
This type of leader had informal power, they could persuade, not command their followers to obey.
What is a big man?
The Mycenaeans and Minoans were the two groups of people living in this Bronze Age region.
What is Greece?
These ambitious men used the anger of the people of Greece to steal power in their community, they are known as this.
What is a tyrant?
This man, whose name came to mean "king," was stabbed 23 times by Roman Senators when they feared he was becoming too powerful.
Who is Caesar?
The Core, Hammerstone, and Flakes are the three components of H Habilis' process of making this.
What is stone tools?
The man of the house, who ruled his family like a king is called this, which is where the modern word "father" originates in many languages.
What is Patriarch?
These people migrated into the Anatolian Plateau and became the leaders of a mighty empire.
Who are the Hittites?
The word citizen, which means "city-dweller," was a person who lived in a Greek polis and owned this.
What is land?
This Vandal served as a close ally to Emperor Theodosius and as Magister Militum to his young son, Honorius between 395 and 408 CE.
Who is Stilicho?
Name TWO accomplishments/inventions/developments of H erectus.
Fire, hunting, running, cooking, migration out of Africa
Name the three types of farming in the Ancient World.
What is Dryland, Irrigation, and Floodplain?
These are the names of the two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300 hoplites from this polis made a famous last stand against the Persians at Thermopylae. None survived.
What is Sparta?
Name the two legendary brothers who founded the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?