Dates
People
Civilizations
Vocabulary
Places & Landforms
100
Egypt was attacked by the Hyksos.
What happened in 1786 BCE?
100
The first recognized emperor of Rome.
Who was Caesar Augustus (Octavian)?
100
Phillip the II and Alexander the Great united the city-states and spread its culture.
What happened in Greece (the Greek civilization)?
100
Type of paper used by the Egyptians.
What is Papyrus?
100
The hill settled by the Latins.
What is the Palatine?
200
Greece city states had lost their power.
What happened by 146 BCE?
200
He built the first pyramid in Egypt.
Who was King Djoser?
200
Built triremes to defeat the Persians.
Who was Greece? (or the Greeks)
200
Two hundred years of peace starting with the rule of Octavian.
What is Pax Romana?
200
The polis known for its military strength.
What is Sparta?
300
The Egyptian civilization started.
What happened in 3100 BCE?
300
He took Athens and its democracy into its golden age.
Who was Pericles?
300
Built aqueducts to get water into cities.
Who are the Romans?
300
A personal set of beliefs and values that a person uses to make sense of the world.
What is a world view?
300
The two rivers bordering the place where the Sumerians lived.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
400
Greece fell into a dark age.
What happened in 1100 BCE?
400
He united all the city-states in Mesopotamia into the Babylonian Empire.
Who was Hammurabi?
400
Both civilizations built special tombs to hold their leader once they had passed away.
Who were the Mycenaeans (early Greeks) and the Egyptians.
400
The science of measuring time in fixed periods, dating events and periods, and placing them in order.
What is chronology?
400
The location of the oldest known civilization in the world. (The ancient name, not the modern day country)
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Julius Caesar was assassinated.
What happened on March 15th, 44BCE?
500
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
500
The Harappans were part of this civilization.
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
500
A practice used by the Athenians where a citizen could be exiled through the results of an unpopularity contest.
What is ostracism?
500
The polis where the Parthenon was built.
What is Athens?
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