What were the tools used by the first Americans made from?
100
Iran
What is the country called today where the ancient Persians came from?
100
Italy
What is the country where Rome is located?
100
Dark Ages
What is another name for the Middle Ages?
200
Pyramids
What is the structure built by hand with giant blocks of stone. Kings were buried in these triangular buildings.
200
Maize
What is the most important crop grown by early Americans?
200
Cyrus the Great
Who is the first Persian King, who practiced tolerance, allowing conquered people to keep their homes and customs.
200
Republic
What is the new kind of government formed by the Romans. It was similar to Athens because the people could vote, not on issues but for people to represent them (indirect democracy).
200
Charlemagne
Who was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the pope?
300
Pharaoh
What is the name for a king of ancient Egypt
300
Bering Strait
What is the place where the first ancient Americans crossed over from Asia to America.
300
Athens and Sparta
What are the two most famous city-states of ancient Greece?
300
Patricians and plebeians
What were the two classes of citizens in Rome?
300
Feudalism
What is the class system that included the king, nobles, knights and serfs?
400
Hieroglyphics
What is the Egyptian system of picture writing
400
Anasazi
What is the name of the ancient people who lived in the southwestern United States? These people built pueblos on top of mesas or caves dug into the sides of cliffs.
400
Alexander the Great
In just 10 years, this ruler from Macedonia conquered and ruled one of the largest empires the world has ever seen.
400
Julius Caesar
Who is the Roman dictator who tried to rule fairly and help the poor, but was murdered by his senators.
400
Black Death
What is the name for the plague the killed one in every three people in Europe from 1347 to 1351?
500
Papyrus
What is the plant used by Egyptians to build boats, make baskets, shows, rope and a special kind of paper.
500
The Olmecs
Who were the ancient people who settled along the Gulf of Mexico (in present day Mexico) who made huge statues of heads from volcanic rock called basalt.
500
Peloponnesian War
What is the war that lasted 27 years between Athens and Sparta for control of Greece.
500
Octavian Augustus
Who ruled rome fairly, making it a better place to live, for over 40 years, and earned the name of "respected one"?
500
The Crusades
What are the series of wars fought by Christian knights and the Muslims for control of the Holy Lands.