Human Origins
The ability to create this on command allowed humans to consume more animal meat, leading to rapid growth in human brain size.
What is fire?
The Fertile Crescent includes the Nile River, and these two other rivers that run southeast.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates.
This person was seen as a living god on Earth, who would later be reincarnated as another god after death.
Who is the Pharaoh?
This is the name for the Jewish holy book. It is also the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible.
What is the Torah?
Ancient Greeks had to become great sailors, fishermen and tradesmen because the land of Greece is covered in these.
What are mountains?
The scientific observation that all species change over time.
What is evolution?
The Epic of Gilgamesh features this kind of myth, which was popular across the ancient world.
What is a flood myth?
To keep records, the Egyptians wrote on this plant, giving us our earliest forms of paper.
What is papyrus?
According to scripture, he was the founding figure of not only Judaism, but also Christianity and Islam.
Who is Abraham?
These two gods battled for the naming rights to what would become the city of Athens.
Who are Athena and Poseidon?
During the Ice Age, humans first began to use these animals for a variety of tasks.
What are dogs?
While much of the region was hot and dry, Mesopotamia enjoyed fertile land thanks to this clay-like material found in rivers.
What is silt?
This written document was essential to any Egyptian hoping to reach the afterlife, as it contained the necessary spells and instructions to get past all supernatural obstacles.
What is the Book of the Dead?
A holy agreement between people and a god or gods. The Hebrews entered into one with Yahweh.
What is a covenant?
This form of government, established in ancient Athens, determines laws through citizens voting.
What is democracy?
Another word for early humans who traveled around, following the herds of animals.
What are nomads?
For the land in Mesopotamia to remain fertile, this event needed to occur every spring.
What is the flooding of the rivers?
Egypt's government was intertwined with its religion, making it this form of government.
What is a theocracy?
The initial reason for hatred of the Jews in the ancient world was that they were the only people practicing THIS KIND of religion.
What is monotheism?
This form of government, used in ancient Sparta, gave power to a select few wealthy families.
What is an oligarchy?
When the Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010, only people who descended from this continent were found to have NO Neanderthal DNA.
What is Africa?
Mesopotamians used a series of canals and ditches to move river water where they wanted it to flow, in an early version of this practice.
What is irrigation?
We can now understand ancient Egyptian writing (Hieroglyphics), thanks to the discovery of this in 1799.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The stereotype that Jewish people are greedy or money hungry comes from a time when Jews made up the majority of Europe's bankers. This occurred because, unlike Christians at the time, Jews were permitted by their religion to do THIS.
What is charge interest?
While we used to believe this conflict was largely a myth, new evidence has emerged to show it may have actually happened (probably not with gods, goddesses and magic apples though).
What is the Trojan War?