These were the rivers in the Fertile Crescent otherwise known as Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
This famous Babylonian leader created a code of law that could be quite harsh.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
After the Agricultural Revolution, and the idea of specialization, the birth of this came about. Each has their own language, religion, government, art, social systems, and architecture.
What is a civilization?
100
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All seven continents.
What Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antartica and Europe?
100
A ruler in ancient Egypt.
What was a pharaoh?
200
This river in Egypt had gentle floods leaving the land with rich soil to grow crops. Good thing too, because all around it is desert.
What is the Nile river?
200
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He is credited for freeing the Israelites from the Egyptians. He was raised as the future pharaoh's Ramses II's brother and found out later that he was not Egyptian at all, but Hebrew.
Who was Moses?
200
The birth of civilization was thought to be here between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What was Mesopotamia?
200
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This artifact, unlocked the secret of the hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
The government of the Spartans.
What is an oligarchy?
300
This system, thought to have started in Sumer a Mesopotamian city-state, of bringing water to farm land revolutionized agriculture.
What is irrigation?
300
The Chinese Emperor who commissioned the Great Wall of China and had a spirit army made to protect him in the afterlife. He wasn't the nicest guy...
Who was Qin Shihaungdi?
300
This Chinese philosopher believed in filial piety and to put family and community before yourself.
Who was Confucius?
300
Thanks to these sea-faring people we now have an alphabet. The idea of a letter representing a sound.
Who were the Phoenicians?
300
Greece is credited for this sporting event celebrated around the world. Hint, it occurs every four years.
What are the Olympics?
400
This sea is almost completely land locked and touches the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Hint, we have spent a lot of time around it this year.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
She was one of the few female pharaohs of Egypt. She focused on trade and commerce rather than conquering lands.
Who was Hatshepsut?
400
This famous city was built in the Nile delta in order to be protected as well as be the center of trade for the ancient world during the Hellenistic era.
What is Alexandria?
400
The United States is located in these two hemispheres.
What are the northern and western or northwestern hemispheres?
400
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She was the last pharaoh of Egypt.
Who was Cleopatra?
500
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Greece's mainland is called this, because it is surrounded by the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas.
What is a peninsula?
500
He was the king of Macedonia who conquered almost the entire ancient world. He then spread Greek culture throughout his new kingdom.
Who was Alexander the Great?
500
Sparta and Athens were known as these. They operated as tiny independent countries.
What are city-states?
500
This was the written language of the Sumerians.
What was cuneiform?
500
A person of the Old Stone Age that hunted animals and gathered plants in order to survive.