Early Civs
Writing Systems
Religion
Golden Ages
Post-Classical Civs
100

The civilization that developed in the Nile River valley.

Who are the Egyptians?

100

This discovery by archaeologists helped historians decode Egyptian hieroglyphics.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

100

The oldest of the Abrahamic religions and was established in Babylon.

What is Judaism?

100

Pax Romana

What is the Roman Golden Age or Roman Peace?

100

This civilization developed on Mediterranean Islands and its city-states did not spread outside of Europe.

What is Greece?
200

The "land between the rivers" where the Babylonian empire developed.

Where is Mesopotamia?

200

This early form of writing in China was thought to be divinely inspired by their ancestors.

What are Oracle Bones?

200

This monotheistic religion was practiced in Eastern and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

What is Christianity?

200

This architectural feature of the Greek Golden Age comes in three styles/orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, and can still be seen in architecture today.

What are columns?

200

This civilization frist spread outside Europe by capturing Carthage in North Africa and dominating trade in the Mediterranean Sea.

What is Rome?

300

Cotton and the first known fruit were cultivated in this river valley.

What is the Indus?

300

This early written language influenced the alphabets that flourished in the West, including Phoenician, Greek, and English.

What is cuneiform?

300

This prophet founded the religion of Islam after receiving the word of Allah from the angel Gabriel.

Who was Muhammad?

300

This early physician advances medicine in the Greek Golden Age?

Who is Hippocrates?

300

This Empire is known by another name and began with peaceful religious conversions by the Prophet Muhammad.

What is Islamic Caliphates/Umayyad Caliphate?

400

These two (2) civilizations spanned from ancient times into the classical period.

Who are the Egyptians and the Greeks?

400
This language was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church and spread throughout Western Europe during the Middle Ages mostly using the Bible.

What is Latin?

400

These "war[s] for the cross" was waged by Christians against Muslims to gain control of their shared Holy Land.

What are the Crusades?

400

This Golden Age is characterized by deep faith in Islam among other achievements in science, technology, and medicine.

What is the Abbasid Golden Age?

400
This empire's leader led a short life (32 years) but was perhaps the most influential in Afroeurasia because of the spread of Hellenism.

Who is Alexander the Great?/What is Macedeonia?

500

The earliest civilization in China settled in this river valley.

What is the Yang Ze or Yellow River?

500

This language became the official language of governments throughout Europe, SW Asia, and Northern Africa due to Hellenism.

What is Greek?

500

This Crusade pitted Christians against Christians and eventually led to the fall of the Byzantine Empire.

What is the fourth Crusade?

500

This modern deadly substance was created in the Song Golden Age for pyrotechnic displays.

What is gunpowder?

500

This civilization used language and belief systems to unify a large collection of organized cities in their large landmass.

What are the Tang and Song Dynasties/Post-Classical China?