Caveman Chronicles
The term that refers to the time period before written records.
What is Prehistory?
This nickname for Mesopotamia refers to its land being great for farming and agriculture. No, not croissant...
What is The Fertile Crescent?
This river was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, providing water, transportation, and fertile soil.
What is the Nile River?
The Greeks held these athletic competitions every four years to honor Zeus.
What are the Olympic Games?
This famous structure was built to protect China from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
The earliest humans survived by doing this to find food, rather than farming.
What is hunting and gathering?
These two rivers provided water and fertile soil for ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
What are Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These massive tombs were built to house the pharaohs in the afterlife.
What are Pyramids?
This type of government, first developed in ancient Greece, lets citizens vote on laws and leaders.
What is democracy?
This is the main crop grown in ancient China and still widely grown today.
What is rice?
People in the Neolithic era developed this important skill, allowing them to stay in one place and form villages.
What is farming or agriculture?
This form of writing, developed in Mesopotamia, was written on clay tablets using a stylus.
What is Cuneiform?
The ancient Egyptians preserved bodies for the afterlife using this process.
What is mummification?
This Greek god was considered the king of the gods and ruled from Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
This river is also called the "Mother River" of China.
What is the Yellow River or Huang He?
The process by which early humans tamed wild animals for food, companionship, and work is called this.
What is domestication?
This Mesopotamian king created one of the first written legal codes.
Who is Hammurabi?
This famous boy pharaoh's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
The Greeks worshipped many gods, making their religion this type.
What is polytheism?
This symbol represents balance between opposites, originally from Chinese philosophy.
What is Yin and Yang?
This famous archaeological site in England, built during prehistory, is made up of massive stone circles.
What is Stonehenge?
The first known epic poem, telling the story of a legendary king, comes from Mesopotamia.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
This writing system, made up of symbols and pictures, was used by ancient Egyptians. (Spelling counts!)
What are hieroglyphs?
This Macedonian leader conquered much of the ancient world and spread Greek culture far and wide.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This army was buried with a Chinese emperor to protect him in the afterlife.
What is the Terracotta Army?