Neolithic & Mesopotamia
This group was responsible for making the jump to agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution, becoming the first farmers.
Collectors
This site on the Nile River saw the largest Pyramids of Old Kingdom Egypt.
Giza
This river was the heart of Egyptian society and was the source of its agricultural prosperity.
The Nile River
This Chinese dynasty marks the first period of Chinese history to be attested in the archaeological record.
The Shang Dynasty (1600-1027 BCE)
Humans were created from this substance in Mesoamerican religious though.
Maize
This monumental construction in Paleolithic Britain was likely used for astronomical observation.
Stonehenge
This temple structure was often found at the center of Mesopotamian cities.
Ziggurat
This kingdom in Anatolia was a chief rival of New Kingdom Egypt.
The Hittites (Hatti)
This fortification was built to protect Zhou and Qin China from northern military predator states.
The Great Wall of China
This strip of land connected Asia and North America during the Pleistocene.
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.
The Linear Band Peoples
This British Prime Minister defended the Falklands against Argentina during the early 1980s.
Margaret Thatcher
This Late Bronze Age kingdom refused to marry its daughters to foreign kings.
Egypt
This core feature of Confucian thought is used to describe ritual devotion to one's parents.
Filial Piety (Xiào)
This Arabic name is given to the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
The Sahel
Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic all belong to this language family.
The Semitic language family
This brother of Osiris was an ambiguous figure in Egyptian mythology. He slays the monster Apophis daily as Ra's barge crosses the sky.
Seth (Set)
This Mediterranean island was an important source of Bronze Age copper. It would be depopulated during the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
Cyprus
This text, written by Confucius, formed the early core of Confucian teachings.
The Analects
This period saw large ice caps form over northern continents.
Pleistocene
This early society (in what is today Peru) is one of the earliest urban communities in the Western Hemisphere.
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.
Ka
This Egyptian queen was the wife of Akhenaten.
Nefertiti
This military-predator people (related to the Huns) invaded China, leading to the construction of the Great Wall.
Xiongnu
This people built planned cities that prioritized hygiene.
The Indus River People
The Harapan People