Languages and Writing
Gods
Boxes from the Book
Important Firsts
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100
This is the script used by Ancient Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
100
These are two names for the regional goddess of Mesopotamia who represented love, fertility, and war.
Who are Inanna and Ishtar?
100
Oh Viracocha, ancient Viracocha, skilled creator, who makes and establishes "on the earth below may they eat, may they drink" you say; for those you have established, those you have made may food be plentiful. "Potatoes, maize, all kinds of food may there be." What society wrote this chant?
What is Andean?
100
This group developed the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
100
This is the branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe (ex: Dogon Egg, Pueblo Corn Mothers, Big Bang, Genesis).
What is cosmogony?
200
This language developed in North India when the Aryans invaded and is now primarily used solely for religious writings.
What is Sanskrit?
200
This is the Egyptian god who represented the scribes. He is depicted as having the head of an ibis.
Who is Thoth?
200
True or False? The Bhagavad Gita indicates that death is something that should not be feared because it brings people further along in the cycle of life.
What is True?
200
He was the first king to unite all of the major Sumerian city states.
Who is Sargon of Akkad
200
This is the Nubian pharaoh of Egypt who fought against Ashurbanepal (the Assyrians).
Who is Taharqa/Tirhaka?
300
This is the script of the Minoans that has not yet been deciphered.
What is Linear A?
300
This is the god that Akhenaton wanted Egyptians to worship monotheistically. Depicted as a disc, he represented the Sun.
Who is Aton?
300
This Nigerian society's thought process was summed up by an anthropologist and draws heavily on perspectives from the Nok and Bantu cultures
What is Igbo?
300
She was the first female pharaoh and was depicted as a man in order to maintain an image that Egyptians would accept.
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
This is the civilization referenced in the works of Homer.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
400
These are the earliest examples of Chinese writing.
What are oracle bones?
400
Son of Osiris and Isis, this god took his father's place as the head of Egyptian gods.
Who is Horace?
400
The Book of Songs, a collection of 305 poems, hymns, and folk songs was complied between 1000 and 600 BCE during this Chinese dynasty.
What is Zhou dynasty?
400
This was the first pharaoh of Egypt and is said to have died from being trampled by a hippo.
Who is Menes?
400
This society made rope-like pottery rather than using pottery wheels.
What is Jomon?
500
This is the writing style used for every day records in Ancient Egypt.
What is demotic?
500
These statues represent the female deity of early humans.
What are Venus figurines?
500
This culture wrote a song that illustrated the uses of surplus grain and rice to include: wine, liquor, offerings to ancestors, fulfilling religious rituals.
What is Chinese culture?
500
This is the first well preserved Australopithecus skeleton found by archaeologists.
Who is Lucy?
500
This relic helped archaeologists decipher hieroglyphics for the first time.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
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