Make Your Mark
Get Organized
Where in the World
What's your evidence?
Gen Z Teaches History
100
These images are made when ancient carvings oxidize over time and depict a variety of symbols and figures. They can be found in many places around the world.
What are petroglyphs?
100
As a system for organizing people into levels of power, wealth, or importance, these got increasingly complex and people settled into cities.
What are hierarchies?
100
These grassy regions, found in what is now Russia and Asia, played a crucial role in the evolution and domestication of horses as we know them.
What are the steppes?
100
The name for the earliest period of the stone age, characterized by the use of smooth stone tools.
What is Paleolithic?
Bonus: time period?
100
Get in loser, we're discussing communities, networks, and production and distribution.
What are frames?
200
An example of these figures are small statuettes with large eyes from Mesopotamia. The large eyes indicate that these figures serve as surrogate worshippers for whoever placed them in the shrine.
What are votive figures?
200
This is the term for when a family line is traced through the mother, rather than the father.
What is matrilineal?
200
The birthplace of (some) civilization, this region's name means "between the water."
What is Mesopotamia?
200
This is the fancy name for pits of stuff that was buried on purpose.
What are foundation or ritual deposits?
200
This vessel has, like 6/7 different registers!
What is the Warka Vase?
300
What is the Standard of Ur?
300
Common in China for millenia, this is the term for a series of powerful leaders from the same family. Also a popular TV soap opera from the 1980's.
What is a dynasty?
300
When we discuss the region now known as Central and South America and the Caribbean as it existed before European colonization, we use this term.
What is Mesoamerica?
300
The process, specific to the human species, of sharing and accumulating knowledge over multiple generations and across regions.
What is collective learning?
300
Fierce hybrid vibes
What is a Lamassu?
400
This system of writing is named with an ancient word for "wedge-shaped."
What is cuneiform?
400
We suspect that these societies were more egalitarian then their later urban relatives, because of the need to survive as a group.
Who were foragers/hunter-gatherers?
400
Harappa and Mahenjo Daro are some of the earliest civilizations and are found in this region.
What is the Indus River Valley?
400
This technology was probably first developed to keep track of goods and accounts but was later used to record stories like Gilgamesh
What is writing?
400
TFW you conquer your neighbors and form one of these, but then have to defend your huge borders and a multi-cultural population, yikes!
What is an empire?
500
These small objects could be worn, but also made detailed impressions in clay when rolled, creating a signature of the wearer.
What are cylinder seals?
500
Occupational specialization can only occur when a civilization has a __________ of resources.
What is a surplus?
500
This river flows south to north and floods with clockwork predictability, making it possible to plan a year, and indeed a complete civilization, around it.
What is the Nile river in Egypt?
500
This is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture, which consists of artifacts and other created objects, architecture, biological and environmental remains, and cultural landscapes.
What is archaeology?
500
I mean, getting closer to the gods is great, but this structure is so extra.
What is a ziggurat?