Prehistory
This term refers to any and all tools created to help humans adapt to their environments.
What is technology?
This land area, in the heart of the Fertile Crescent, was the home of Sumer, the first civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
The first documented civilization in what is today the Americas was this one.
What is the Olmec?
This type of storytelling originated in ancient Greece and combines fact and fiction.
What is (Greek) mythology?
He was probably Rome's most famous dictator -- and the namesake of a Vegas casino.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This activity is what distinguishes what is called "history" from "prehistory."
What is writing?
Cuneiform, the Sumerian system of symbols used to record information, evolved into this.
What is writing?
Along with an early India civilization, the Maya were believed to have been among the first to introduce this mathematical concept.
What is the zero?
An early form of democracy emerged in this Greek city-state, amid other types of government like monarchy, aristocracy and oligarchy.
What is Athens?
Construction of this famous Roman arena began under the emperor Vespasian.
What is the Colosseum?
Humans in the Paleolithic Age survived by filling these basic roles to acquire food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
The Phoenicians are credited with this major contribution to civilization.
What is the alphabet?
The Incas and others used this type of mud-based brick to build houses and other structures.
What is adobe?
This leader achieved his father's dream of conquering the Persian Empire and expanding the Greek culture and influence.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Reversing what once was Rome's policy of persecution, this emperor became a supporter of Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
This major development in the Neolithic Revolution was a game-changer for humans.
What is agriculture (or farming)?
In the absence of written records or oral history, historians must rely on these to learn about the past.
What are artifacts?
The adobe villages of indigenous people in the desert Southwest were called this by Spanish colonialists and explorers.
What are pueblos?
This is a term for city-state in Greek civilization.
What is a polis?
This emperor was thought to have been mentally ill; he tried to appoint his horse a Roman consul.
Who is Caligula?
Whether the tools were stone, bronze, iron or other, the materials were also used for this purpose.
What are weapons?
The king of Babylon attempted this first set of written laws for his society.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This indigenous people adapted to harsh climate in the Arctic, building igloos and using local animals for food and other purposes.
Who were the Inuit?
These three philosophers are iconic figures from ancient Greece.
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
What is assassination?