Prehistory
This prehistoric structure type, made from massive stone slabs and often used as tombs, gets its name from Greek for “stone table.”
What is a dolmen?
This ancient writing system used wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The medieval legal practice of trial by ordeal was officially curtailed by this Church council in 1215.
What is the Fourth Lateran Council?
This invention, perfected in Europe in the 15th century, dramatically increased the spread of ideas.
What is the printing press?
This 18th-century innovation dramatically increased textile production and helped launch industrialization.
What is the spinning jenny?
This prehistoric hunting technique involved driving large animals off cliffs and is known by a French term.
What is a buffalo jump?
The ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaten was built by this pharaoh to center worship on the Aten.
Who is Akhenaten?
This Abbasid capital became a major center of learning after its founding in 762 CE.
What is Baghdad?
This empire replaced the Mamluks as rulers of Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean in 1517.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This 19th-century ideology promoted free markets, limited government, and individual rights.
What is liberalism?
This Paleolithic stone tool tradition is named after a site in France and is known for handaxes.
What is the Acheulean
The Antikythera Mechanism is often described as the world’s first example of this type of device.
What is an analog computer?
This Chinese dynasty issued the world’s first known government-backed paper money.
What is the Song Dynasty?
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided newly claimed lands outside Europe between these two powers.
Who is Spain (the Crown of Castile) and Portugal
This British intelligence operation used a corpse with false documents to mislead Axis forces before the invasion of Sicily.
What is Operation Mincemeat
This Upper Paleolithic culture is associated with some of the earliest known Venus figurines and flourished around 30,000–20,000 BCE.
What is the Gravettian culture?
This Carthaginian general crossed the Alps using war elephants during the Second Punic War.
Who is Hannibal Barca?
This Islamic scholarly institution in Cairo, founded in 970 CE, remains one of the world’s oldest universities.
What is Al-Azhar?
The Tokugawa policy of sakoku primarily aimed to restrict this group’s influence in Japan.
Who are European missionaries (especially Christians)?
This Russian reform of 1861 freed millions of peasants from serfdom.
What is the Emancipation Reform?
The Neolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk notably lacked this common urban feature found in later cities.
What are streets?
This Neo-Assyrian king’s library at Nineveh preserved the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
This Maya manuscript(one of the few to survive Spanish destruction)contains astronomical and calendrical tables.
What is the Dresden Codex?
The Mughal administrative system that assessed land revenue based on crop surveys was known by this name.
What is the zabt system?
This Japanese biological warfare unit conducted human experimentation in occupied China.
What is Unit 731?