Pre-History
Greece
River Valleys
Belief Systems
Social Sciences
100
This is the meaning of the phrase pre-history.
What is before humans kept written records?
100
This is the vocabulary term for the predominant geographic feature in Greece that divided it into city-states.
What is mountainous?
100
This is the name for the dirt like substance found at the bottom of rivers that allowed for early Neolithic people to grow crops.
What is silt?
100
This is the name of the Jewish holy book.
What is the Torah?
100
This is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
What is history?
200
The domestication of plants and animals is what set this revolution into motion.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
200
This is the form of government that the city-state of Sparta had.
What is an oligarchy?
200
This is the name of the river that the earliest civilizations in China flourished around.
What is the Yellow River?
200
This is the Hindu concept that describes when a soul is reborn into a new body.
What is reincarnation?
200
This is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of artifacts.
What is archaeology?
300
This is the term for early humans who migrated from place to place instead of having a permanent home.
What is nomadic?
300
This is the major sea that Athens borders and that was vital to the ancient Greek control over the region.
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
This is the name of the ethnic group of people who invaded and likely destroyed the Indus Valley civilization.
Who are the Aryans?
300
This is the main prophet of Judaism and the city he is from.
What are Abraham and Ur?
300
This is the study of social behavior.
What is sociology?
400
This is what all human tools were made out of during the Paleolithic Era.
What is stone?
400
This is the region of Greece that Alexander the Great is from.
What is Macedonia?
400
This is the writing system developed and used throughout Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
400
This is the name of the social system that presides over Hinduism and, to a lesser extent, India itself.
What is the caste system?
400
This is the study of various aspects of humanity within past and present societies.
What is anthropology?
500
This is the name for the earliest forms of religion found all throughout the pre-historic world.
What is animism?
500
These are the three major philosophers from ancient Athens.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
500
This is the name of the artifacts found on the Napoleonic conquest of Egypt that allowed for modern humanity to translate hieroglyphics for the first time.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
This is the name of the top caste in the caste system.
What are Brahmins?
500
This is the field of study that focuses on forms of government, political behavior, and other political activities.
What is political science?