What is the time period noted by extensive glaciation?
The Ice Age
100
What was the most important feature of the Nile River for the Ancient Egyptians?
flooding
100
What Babylonian king codified Mesopotamian and Sumerian laws, creating a famous ancient set of laws?
Hammurabi
100
What was one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire?
barbarian invasions
100
Which family from Florence funded and therefore controlled much of the Italian Renaissance?
the Medici
200
What is one of the earliest civilizations recorded, located in southern Mesopotamia, known for cuneiform writing?
Sumerian
200
What is the name for Ancient Egyptian monarchs?
pharoah
200
Who was the 1st patriarch of the Hebrew nation?
Abraham
200
What was the network of roads for trade between China and the Byzantine Empire (therefore, much of Europe)?
The Silk Route
200
What Polish astronomer formed the radical theory that planets revolve around the sun?
Nicolaus Copernicus
300
What is the name for people that move from place to place, following animal migrations?
Nomads
300
What is the name of the earliest Egyptian writing?
hieroglyphics
300
Who was the Greek poet who composed the epic, The Odyssey?
Homer
300
Who was one of the 1st English church reformers, paving the way for the Protestant Reformation?
John Wycliffe
300
What German monk challenged the Catholic Church, starting a revolution?
Martin Luther
400
What is the name of the arc of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, the site of early civilizations because of rich soil and therefore abundant crops?
The Fertile Crescent
400
What king of Egypt united Upper and Lower Egypt, creating the 1st Egyptian dynasty?
Menes
400
The place where democracy began?
Athens
400
Who was the German printer and developer of the printing press, making the exchange and proliferation of information possible?
Johannes Gutenberg
400
What king of England broke from the Catholic Church, making himself head of the Church of England?
Henry VIII
500
What are ancient massive stepped towers called?
ziggurats
500
What king of Egypt rejected traditional gods, creating a monotheistic society, committed to the worship of Aton?
Amenhotep
500
Who was the Greek philosopher who developed the question and answer method to attain knowledge?
Socrates
500
Who was the Mongolian leader who formed the largest land empire in history?