This covers a vast amount of time divided into two periods from 3.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago and 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago.
What is the stone age?
100
This item had images and markings to show value and was invented by the Lydians and used today.
What is a coin?
100
An area between 2 rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
I may or may not have been a real person and I was 2/3 God and 1/3 human but I wanted to be immortal and I was the subject of an epic poem.
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
The production of this was a major step towards the rise of civilization in Southern Mesopotamia.
What is the production of surplus food?
200
The items humans used were stone tools, hand axes, bone, improvements in stone working and polished rock tools. This marked the beginning of improvements known as ...
What is technology?
200
The exchange of goods and services were used by the Phoenicians in trading.
What is barter?
200
Because of the regions rich fertile soil and its curved shape located in the countries of Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
I was the first empire builder, and abandoned as a baby and placed in a basket on a river, where I rose from servant to ruler.
Who is Sargon?
200
People used these to build homes, temples and palaces.
What is a mud brick?
300
To grow wild plants as food crops and to tame wild animals to help produce food.
What is domesticate?
300
Under the Hebrews, Abraham promised to worship only one God.
What is a monotheism?
300
The worship of many gods was practiced by Sumerians and Akkadians.
What is polytheism?
300
I was the king of the city state of Babylon and developed a set of 282 laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
By building trenches and ditches, this method was used for watering crops by farmers.
What is irrigation?
400
This typical stone age village was found in Northern Scotland.
What is Skara Brae?
400
We were well-known throughout the ancient world as adventurous traders and established trading posts.
Who were the Phoenicians?
400
This is a form of wedge shaped writing.
What is a cuneiform?
400
I started a series of building projects, including the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
400
This consisted of a series of stacked rectangular platforms that formed a huge pyramid-shaped structure that linked the heavens and earth.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This glacier helped people migrate between Asia and North America.
What is a land bridge?
500
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
What is a city-state?
500
In Sumer, below the king, there were wealthy business people, landowners and government workers; artisans and farm workers; and slaves
What is a class system?
500
My father, David, united the tribes and founded Israel. I built a temple to house the Torah and serve as a place of worship.
Who is Solomon?
500
This invention first appeared in Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago and helped in transportation.