The first form of writing to keep agricultural records.
What are pictograms?
100
A body of water that is 750 miles long and floods annually.
What is the Nile River?
100
The outer circle represents endless cycle, while the inner circles represent the energies that cause everything to happen.
What is the Yin-yang symbol?
100
A place where the people of the community would go to meet or as a market place.
What is an agora?
100
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
What are the three orders of Greek architecture?
200
Mountain people who were the first to make iron.
Who were the Hittites?
200
The first form of paper that was made from a water plant.
What is Papyrus?
200
1. Life is suffering.
2. This suffering has a cause, which is ignorance.
3. Ignorance can be overcome and eliminated.
4. The way to overcome this ignorance is by following the Eightfold Path.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
200
When the hero wins due to using his brains and being clever.
What is arête?
200
The largest city in Crete.
What is Knossos?
300
One of eight gates in the inner city of Babylon covered with blue glazed bricks.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
300
Married to Osiris.
Who is Isis?
300
Clay figures that represented the army of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang. These 8,000+ clay figures were buried with the emperor to protect him in the afterlife.
What are the terra-cotta soldiers?
300
When a column swells about 1/3 of the way up and then contracts again at the top.
What is entasis?
300
A large group of islands in the Aegean Sea.
What are the Cyclades?
400
The oldest narrative poem ever recorded that took up seven clay tables.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
A lime stone statue that was the largest made in the ancient world resembling a human-headed lion.
What is the Great Sphinx?
400
Pieces of bone or shell used by carving a question on to them and then heated by a bronze pin. The crack would then be studied and an answer would be given.
What are oracles bones?
400
The play writer that made fun of everything and started comedy as part of the theater.
Who is Aristophanes?
400
The temple of Athena on the Acropolis at Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
500
The first public proclamation written by a ruler to his people to publically declare the laws of the land.
What is the Law Code of Hammurabi?
500
An Egyptian queen who was married to the Pharaoh Akhenaton.
Who is Queen Nefertiti?
500
A deeply symbolic, dome shaped structure that was used to house the body of a Buddha.
What is a stupa?
500
To discover the truth and ask questions to gain a new understanding.
What is Socratic Method?
500
The only place where gods and humans are equal and where the Olympic Games were hosted