Prehistory
This long period of history is named after the material that early humans used to make their tools and weapons.
Stone Age
Egyptian queen who was the last active ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt before it became a Roman province.
Cleopatra
The terrible disease, also called the "Black Death," killed about one-third of the population in Europe in the 14th century.
The Plague
The invention by Johannes Gutenberg allowed books to be printed quickly, making it easier for people to learn to read.
Printing Press
This Roman city was perfectly preserved under volcanic ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
Pompeii
This extinct species of human lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago and is our closest evolutionary relative.
Neanderthals
The name of the 117-kilometer wall built in England to defend against barbarians.
Hadrian's Wall
Which year is dated as the end of antiquity/beginning of the Middle Ages?
476 AD
This major event in 1789 began with the fall of the Bastille prison and ended the monarchy in France.
The French Revolution
Found in 1974, this collection of thousands of life-sized clay soldiers was buried to protect the first Emperor of China in the afterlife.
The Terracotta Army
What is the name of the famous "Iceman Man" whose mummified body from the Copper Age was found in 1991?
Ötzi
A young king from Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in history before the age of 30.
Alexander the Great
City, that was the capital of the Byzantine Empire for over 1,000 years until it was captured by the Ottomans in 1453.
Constantinople
Which German monk nailed the 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg?
Martin Luther
This famous black stone was found in Egypt and helped experts finally understand how to read hieroglyphs.
Rosetta Stone
This "Revolution" happened when humans stopped moving from place to place and started farming and living in villages.
Neolitic Revolution
The name of a slave and gladiator who led a rebellion in ancient Rome.
Spartacus
The series of conflicts between England and France lasted from 1337 to 1453 over the right to rule the French throne.
The Hundred Years' War
This Polish astronomer was the first to prove that the Earth and other planets travel around the Sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Which British archaeologist became famous in 1922 for discovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun?
Howard Carter
The massive stone structures, such as Stonehenge in England, were built for religious or astronomical purposes.
Megalith
A set of 282 laws from ancient Babylon is one of the oldest and most famous legal codes in history.
The Code of Hammurabi
Which Frankish ruler was crowned emperor in Rome in 800 and unified much of Western Europe?
Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
This 1648 peace treaty ended the Thirty Years' War and established the modern concept of independent, sovereign states.
Peace of Westphalia
The name of the best archaeologist, historian and Moravian patriot.
Bohuslav Klíma Jr.