Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia
Greek Philosophy
Persia
The Greeks
100
Built as tombs for Egyptian pharaohs.
What is a pyramid?
100
The founders of the first civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumerians?
100
The inventor of the Socratic method.
What is Socrates?
100
Founder of the Persian state.
What is Cyrus?
100
Militaristic state above all else.
What is Sparta?
200
The Egyptian form of writing
What is hieroglyphics?
200
The capitol of the Chaldean state.
What is Babylon?
200
Writer of the "Allegory of the Cave."
What is Plato?
200
Religion of the Persians.
What is zoroastrianism?
200
Supposed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
What is Homer?
300
Outside invaders who brought the Middle Kingdom to an end.
What is the Hyksos?
300
A Babylonian king, and supposed author of a law code named after him.
What is Hammurabi?
300
Interested in a variety of fields beyond philosophy, he also used the syllogism (transitive property) to perfect his study of logic.
What is Aristotle?
300
Known, in the Bible, as the "annointed of the Lord" for allowing the Jews to return to Palestine.
What is Cyrus?
300
Followed his father's command to invade Greece... only to meet ultimate disaster.
What is Xerxes?
400
The location of the first peace treaty - signed between the Egyptians and the Hittites.
What is Kadesh?
400
Capitol of the Assyrian empire (just ask Jonah).
What is Ninevah?
400
Greek philosophical teachers, who aimed to provide their students with the skills necessary to win debates.
What is sophists?
400
Great general, successor to Cambyses, who lost - eventually - to the Greeks at Marathon.
What is Darius?
400
The conflict that ended the Greek "Golden Age."
What is Peloponnesian War?
500
The warlike king who succeeded Hatshepsut and expanded Egypt's borders during the New Kingdom.
What is Thutmose III?
500
The system of writing developed by the Sumerians - probably the world's first.
What is cuneiform?
500
Founder of the "Academy."
What is Plato?
500
Persian provincial administors.
What is satraps?
500
Give him a big enough lever, and he could lift the world.
What is Archimedes?
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