These are people who hunt animals and gather plants for food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
These are the two rivers located in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
This, the longest river in the world, is what fed the Egyptian civilization for over 5,000 years.
What is the Nile?
100
This physical feature covered most of Greece making it difficult to farm. Therefore, the Greeks formed colonies on other lands.
What are mountains?
100
He is one of the most popular figures in Roman history. He is known for increasing Rome's size, building new roads, and creating new jobs. He is perhaps best known for his murder by a group of senators.
Who was Julius Caesar?
200
These are people who have no set home but move from place to place.
What are nomads?
200
This climate, meaning hot summers with limited rainfall, was typical in Mesopotamia.
What is arid?
200
This is the paperlike material made from the stems of the plant with the same name. Scribes used this to write down information using hieroglyphs.
What is papyrus?
200
These were the largest and most popular city-states in ancient Greece.
What are Sparta and Athens?
200
Rome is located on this continent.
What is Europe?
300
These are types of technology used by early humans.
What are stone tools, carrying bags, hand axes, hunting bows, and fire?
300
Around 6,000 B.C., farmers began to build canals to carry water from the rivers to the fields. Such a system for watering dry land is called this.
What is irrigation?
300
This is the belief in more than one god or goddess. The Egyptians believed in Re, Osiris, Isis, and Anubis to name a few.
What is polytheism?
300
These are short stories that teach a moral lesson. Most often, animals are the main characters.
What are fables?
300
This building, which could seat 50,000 spectators, is where Romans came to watch chariot races and gladiators fight to their death.
What is the Colosseum?
400
This is an amount produced in excess of what is needed.
What is a surplus?
400
These are the only two resources Mesopotamians had available.
What are reeds and mud?
400
This was the name given to the king or ruler of Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
400
Athens was the first to develop this type of government which served as a model for the government we have today.
What is democracy?
400
This group of people worked in homes, factories, shops, mines, and on ships. They worked as housekeepers, cooks, nurses, and tutors. Although they had few rights, they could buy their freedom.
What are slaves?
500
This is the shift from food gathering to food growing.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
500
These were types of technology invented in Sumer thousands of years ago. They are still widely used today.
What are the plow and wheel?
500
She was considered the last pharaoh of Egypt.
Who was Cleopatra?
500
This was the center of city life. It was an open space where people came for business and public gatherings. Men met here to discuss politics. Festivals and athletic contests were held here.
What is the agora?
500
This was the most expensive dye. Therefore, it was the color used for the emperor's clothing.