Writing and Literature
Art
Inventions and Technology
Architecture
Infrastructure
100

The earliest form of writing in the ancient world.

Cuneiform

100

This is an expression of human imagination and creativity.

Art

100

The reason people create inventions and achievements.

To meet people's wants and needs

100

This is the art and technique of designing a building.

Architecture

100

This is the basic equipment and structures used to make a civilization work. Like roads and bridges.

Infrastructure

200

The reason Mesopotamians created cuneiform writing

Recording Supplies of Food

200

What cultural values are expressed through this sculpture?

Sport, Athletics, Beauty

200

This is a solution to farming in a hilly and mountainous region.

Terrace Farming

200

This civilization used pyramids solely for the preservation of dead bodies and treasures. Their workers built traps and secret passages to trick grave robbers.

Egypt

200

This type of infrastructure is built to protect people and cities from invasion and outside attacks.

Walls

300

The material Mesopotamian scribes used to write on.

Clay Tablets

300

What cultural values are expressed through this image?

War, Heroism, Teamwork

300

This invention produces an explosive result. It was invented by Chinese scientists in 300 AD and is used in rockets and too propel cannon balls.

Gunpowder

300

This structure was used by Mesopotamians to worship their gods and store food

Ziggurat

300

This type of infrastructure is used to cross bodies of water like rivers.

Bridges

400

These are examples of cultural values

Freedom, Independence, Equality, Peace, Family, etc...

400

What cultural values are expressed in this image?

Nature, Beauty

400

This invention was created to allow for an easier method of writing. Before this, civilizations would carve on tablets or use papyrus.

Paper

400

This structure was used by Greeks to support their buildings, because they lived uneven land.

Columns

400

This type of infrastructure ensures civilizations have a clean supply of water.

Aqueducts and Sewers

500

What cultural values is this passage expressing?

I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in the world, all that go upon the goodly land...

Love of Nature

500

What cultural values are expressed in this image?

Justice, Judgement, Religion, Death

500

This is a reason societies continue to invent new technology and achievements.

To meet people's wants and needs

To help people get resources more easily and feed and provide for growing populations

To make it easier to communicate with people long distance

To navigate more accurate movement across the world

500

This building material was created by the Romans because it is stronger than bricks and stone.

Concrete

500

Roads were built out of concrete by this civilization

Rome/Roman Empire