Week 1 & 2
Neolithic & Mesopotamia
Neolithic & Mesopotamia
This group was responsible for making the jump to agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution, becoming the first farmers.
Who are "Collectors"?
This semi-mythical Egyptian ruler was credited in Ancient times for unifying Upper and Lower Egypt during the Predynastic period.
Who is Narmer?
This river was the heart of Egyptian society and was the source of its agricultural propserity.
What is the Nile?
This Chinese dynasty marks the first period of Chinese history to be attested in the archaeological record.
What is the Shang Dynasty (1600-1027 BCE)?
This concept was used to denote the moral rectitude of a Chinese ruler and the approval of the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This monumental construction in Paleolithic Britain was likely used for astronomical observation.
What is Stonehenge?
This temple structure was often found at the center of Mesopotamian cities.
What is a Ziggurat?
This kingdom in Anatolia was a chief rival of New Kingdom Egypt.
Who are the Hittites?
This fortification was built to protect Zhou and Qin China from northern military predator states.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This strip of land connected Asia and North America during the Pleistocene.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This group of migratory farmers brought agriculture to Western Europe from Anatolia. Archaeologists have named them after the distinctive pattern on their pottery.
Who are the Linear Band Peoples?
This Prime Minister committed to defending the Falklands against Argentina during the early 1980s.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This Late Bronze Age kingdom refused to marry its daughters to foreign kings.
What is Egypt?
This core feature of Confucian thought is used to describe ritual devotion to one's parents.
What is Filial Piety (Xiào)?
This name is given to the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic all belong to this language family.
This form of tomb (meaning "bench" in Arabic) was a precursor to pyramids.
This Mediterranean island was an important source of Bronze Age copper. It would be depopulated during the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
What is Cyprus?
This text, written by Confucius, formed the early core of Confucian teachings.
What is the Analects?
This concept was at the core of Confucius' philosophy.
What is Li?
This early society (in what is today Peru) is one of the earliest urban communities in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Caral-Supe?
This creature--with the head of a dead human and the body of a hawk--was thought to be the physical manifestation of the human soul in Egyptian culture.
What is a Ka?
This Egyptian queen was the wife of Akhenaten.
Who is Nefertiti?
This city became the new capital of China during the Zhou Dynasty.
What is Luoyang?
This form of metallurgy was spread in central Africa by the Bantu peoples.