Before Civilization
Early Civilizations
Asia and Middle East
Europe and Mediterranean
Americas
100
Two names for the time period marking the beginning of agricultural development.
What is the Agricultural Revolution and the Neolithic Revolution?
100
The two main peoples living in early Mesopotamia.
What are Sumerians and Semites?
100
The central shrine in Jerusalem.
What is the First Temple?
100
Writing system of the Mycenaeans.
What is Linear B?
100
Capital of the Chavín.
What is Chavín de Huantar?
200
Where agriculture was first developed.
What is the Middle East?
200
The largest city in Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
200
Sing the Chinese Dynasty Song.
'nuff said.
200
Loosely-ruled Phoenician colony with a very powerful navy.
What is Carthage?
200
Animal revered throughout the Americas.
What is the jaguar?
300
The lifestyle involving maintaining large herds of stock.
What is pastoralism?
300
The Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia.
What is Akkadian?
300
Governor of a Persian province.
What is a satrap?
300
Island home of the Minoans.
What is Crete?
300
Staples of the Mesoamerican diet.
What are corn (maize), beans, and squash?
400
Two early Middle-Eastern towns, one an agricultural settlement and the other a larger obsidian-trading town.
What are Jericho and Çatal Hüyük?
400
System of writing used by Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
400
Ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire, built by Darius and Xerxes.
What is Persepolis?
400
Celtic religious experts.
What are Druids?
400
Animals used by the Chavín for wool, meat, transport of goods, and sometimes said to have been used as malicious creatures of war.
What are llamas?
500
Large Neolithic ceremonial stone structures.
What are megaliths?
500
The reason for the fall of the Indus Valley civilizations.
What is "systems failure"?
500
Zhou-developed ideology that Heaven grants, and can take away, the power of rulers.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
500
Foreign rulers of New Kingdom Egypt.
What are Hyksos?
500
The three dominant centers of the Olmec, in chronological order.
What are San Lorenzo, La Venta, and Tres Zapotes?
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