This is another name for the Old Stone Age. (page 25)
What is the Paleolithic Age?
100
Ancient Egyptian civilization was built along this river.
What is the Nile River?
100
This is the world's largest plateau. (page 184)
What is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau?
100
This is a form of government with elected leaders. (page 317)
What is a republic?
200
This is the zero line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
This is another name for the New Stone Age. (page 25)
What is the Neolithic Age?
200
This is an important environmental factor for human settlement and means "shape of the land." (page 66)
What is topography?
200
It's name means "Once you go in, you will not come out." (page 187)
What is the Taklimakan Desert?
200
In ancient Rome, these people were lower-class citizens and were mostly peasants, laborers, craftspeople, or shopkeepers. (page 318)
Who are plebeians?
300
These are the five major oceans.
What is the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
300
This is the business of farming. (page 27)
What is agriculture?
300
This famous Egyptian pharaoh was a great military leader and master builder. (page 78)
Who is Pharaoh Ramses II?
300
This is one of China's earliest dynasties and ruled the area around the Huang He or Yellow River from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E. (page 195)
What is the Shang Dynasty?
300
This was the name for the 200 years of peace in the Mediterranean world under Roman rule. (page 333)
What is Pax Romana or Roman Peace?
400
These are the imaginary lines that run north and south and meet at the North and South Poles.
What are lines of longitude?
400
This is to train a wild animal to be useful to humans. (page 27)
What is domesticate?
400
This Egyptian social class were farmers and construction workers. (page 92)
Who are the peasants?
400
This great Chinese philosopher taught that all people must respect and obey those above them. (page 208)
Who is Confucius?
400
This famous Roman dictator, to keep the poor happy, staged free gladiator fights. He also adopted a new calendar that we still use today. (page 331)
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
These are imaginary lines that run east and west and remind you of the rungs of a ladder.
What are lines of latitude?
500
This area is known as "the land between the rivers" and is where the modern-day country of Iraq is today. (page 33)
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Another name for this ancient civilization is Nubia because nub is the Egyptian word for gold. (page 96)
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
500
Daoists believe that true harmony comes from balancing these two opposite forces of nature. (page 211)
What is yin and yang?
500
The Roman Republic's version of this had 300 elected men. The version we have in our government today has 100 elected men - two for each of the 50 states. (page 318)