A group of people living closely together and surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for food.
What is a hunter-gatherer community?
100
This term is used to describe the area of the world where the first civilizations formed due to its rich soil and shape.
What is the "Fertile Crescent"?
100
They were Egyptian kings.
What were pharaohs?
100
The Greek city-state that was known for their military might.
Who were the Spartans?
100
The process of supplying water to crops.
What is irrigation?
200
The place where the earliest humans lived.
What is Africa?
200
The first written language, called this, developed in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
200
The annual flooding of this river helped keep the soil fertile for the Egyptians.
What is the Nile?
200
He was the first of the great Greek philosophers. Although his teachers helped shape the Western world, he was sentenced to death for corrupting the young.
Who was Socrates?
200
The taming of wild plants and animals, such as the cow which was among the first animals to be tamed, by humans.
What is domestication?
300
It means to move from place to place without settling permanently.
What is nomadic?
300
A temple that was a small house atop a huge, pyramid-shaped tower.
What is a ziggurat?
300
It is the holy book of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
300
This Greek philosopher was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. He is also credited with the saying, "Necessity is the mother of invention."
Who was Plato?
300
When designing an aqueduct, the Romans relied on which type of energy to transport material through the channel?
What is gravity?
400
Each person in a large group takes on a different role.
What is specialization (or division of labor)?
400
They were the first to invent the plow, bronze tools and weapons, and the potter's wheel.
Who were the Sumerians?
400
The Egyptian form of writing.
What was hieroglyphics?
400
This Greek philosopher made huge advancements in geometry and physics. For this reason, he is often considered the ancient world's greatest mathematician.
Who was Archimedes?
400
It was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
500
Hunter-gatherers traveled in groups or tribes called these.
What is bands?
500
It means "land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
500
He is one of the most famous Egyptian rulers who was also one of the youngest.
Who was King Tut?
500
This form of government means "rule by the people" which was the government form in Athens.
What is democracy?
500
Due to the fact that it became too spread out from its center in Rome what began to happen to the Roman Empire?