Origins of Civilization
Details from the past such as clothing, coins, and artwork.
A. What are cultures? B. What are artifacts? C. What are fossils?
B. What are artifacts?
The land between the Tigris river and Euphrates river.
A. The Fertile Crescent? B. The Fertile Croissant? C. The Fertile Baguette?
A. What is the Fertile Crescent?
A collection of hymns, chants, ritual instructions, and other religious teachings.
A. What is the Brahman B. What is the Vedas? C. What is the Dharma?
B. What is the Vedas?
The earliest American civilization.
A. What is the Maya? B. What is the Olmec? C. What is the Aztec?
B. What is the Olmec?
Poet who wrote two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
A. Who is Plato? B. Who is Aristotle? C. Who is Homer?
C. Who is Homer?
The period also referred to as the Old Stone Age.
A. What is the Neolithic Period? B. What is the Prehistoric Period? C. What is the Paleolithic Period?
C. What is the Paleolithic Period?
The writing system created by the Sumerians.
A. What is hieroglyphics B. What is phonics? C. What is cuneiform?
C. What is cuneiform?
The Two major religions that emerged in ancient India.
A. What is Hinduism & Buddhism B. What is Judaism & Hinduism C. What is Buddhism & Christianity
A. What is Hinduism & Buddhism?
Artificial islands made by the Aztec from mud and reeds.
A. What are Atolls? B. What are Islets? C. What are chinampas?
C. What are chinampas?
A type of government different from monarchy, aristocracy, and oligarchy which gave power to the people.
A. What is Democracy? B. What is Autocracy? C. What is Theocracy?
A. What is Democracy?
Believing in many gods.
A. What is Polytheistic? B. What is Monotheistic? What is Multitheistic?
A. What is Polytheistic?
Skilled sea traders from the eastern Mediterranean coast.
A. Who were the Phoenicians? B. Who were the Babylonians? C. Who were the Sumerians?
A. Who were the Phoenicians?
A. What is Capitalism? B. What is Socialism? C. What is Feudalism?
C. What is Feudalism?
Material used by the Incas to build the largest structures of their kind in the Americas.
A. What is Adobe? B. What is sand? C. What is stone?
A. What is Adobe?
Ancient Greek thinkers that used observation and reason to explain events.
A. What is a Speculator? B. What is a Commenter? C. What is a Philosopher?
C. What is a Philosopher?
Cities, Governments, Complex Religions, Job Specialization, Social Classes, Arts and Architecture, Public Works, and Writing.
A. What are the basic features of Communities? B. What are the basic features of Civilizations? C. What are the basic features of Colonies?
B. What are the Basic Features of Civilizations?
The Father of the Israelites.
A. Who is Moses? B. Who is David? C. Who is Abraham?
C. Who is Abraham?
The first Chinese Dynasty.
A. What is the Shang Dynasty? B. What is the Zhou Dynasty? C. What is the Qin Dynasty?
A. What is the Shang Dynasty?
Largest home built into cliffs by Ancestral Puebloans.
A. What is Quipu? B. What is Mesa Verde? C. What is Earthworks?
B. What is Mesa Verde?
King that acquired the throne and began organizing forces to conquer Persia.
A. Who is Herodotus? B. Who is Alexander the Great? C. Who is Phillip II?
B. Who is Alexander the Great?
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
A. What is culture? B. What is cultural infusion? C. What is cultural diffusion?
C. What is cultural diffusion?
The first female pharaoh.
A. Who is Cleopatra? B. Who is Hatshepsut? C. Who is Nefertiti?
B. Who is Hatshepsut?
The dynasty that invented the seismograph, suspension bridge, rudder, and paper from wood pulp.
A. What is the Qin Dynasty? B. What is the Shang Dynasty? C. What is the Han Dynasty?
C. What is the Han Dynasty?
Native American group that thrived in the harsh Arctic climate.
A. Who are the Inuit? B. Who are the Hohokam? C. Who are the Adena?
A. Who are the Inuit?
Derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle.
A. Who is Pythagoras? B. Who is Archimedes? C. Who is Hippocrates?
A. Who is Pythagoras?