The flooding of this great river allowed Egyptians to grow abundant crops and create great cities.
What is the Nile?
100
The two great city-states in Ancient Greece, that fought each other in the Peloponnesian War.
What are Athens and Sparta?
100
The founders of Rome, raised by wolves according to the legend.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
100
"I united Upper and Lower Egypt and started the first Egyptian dynasty."
Who is Menes?
200
The belief that natural objects are inhabited by spirits.
What is Animism?
200
A type of government where the state is ruled by religious figures, like Egypt, ruled by priests.
What is a theocracy?
200
Historians consider it the first true Greek civilization because their language was similar to modern Greek.
What is the Mycenaean civilization?
200
These architectural wonders carried water into Roman cities.
What are aqueducts?
200
"I helped spread Christianity throughout the Roman empire by removing the emphasis on Jewish laws and customs."
Who is Paul?
300
The belief in more than one god, as practiced by the Greeks and Romans and many other civilizations.
What is polytheism?
300
This "rock" helped scientists translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
Fear of a rebellion by these people kept the Spartans training for war around the clock.
Who are the helots?
300
Rome adopted this "religion" when it conquered Greece.
What is Greek mythology?
300
"I was the first emperor of Rome and was killed by a groups of senators."
Who is Julius Caesar?
400
A "new" religion that was based on the laws and practices of Judaism that became the state religion of Rome in the AD 300s.
What is Christianity?
400
The process of preparing the body after death was thought to keep the person's KA from vanishing.
What is mummification?
400
This was the site of the great land victory in Greece's war with Persia (also the name for a foot race in the Olympics).
What is Marathon?
400
This peaceful period during the Roman empire lasted until the reign of the last Good Emperor.
What is Pax Romana?
400
"I wrote some epic poems about the Trojan War and Odysseus' trip home afterwards."
Who is Homer?
500
A religion that shares much of the same history and the same God as Judaism and Christianity but has a continued revelation in a book called the Qur'an.
What is Islam?
500
Egyptians hired these people from the south as soldiers and police because of their skill in archery.
Who are the Nubians?
500
Hers was the "face that launched a thousand ships" and caused the Trojan War, according to the writer of the Illiad.
Who is Helen?
500
Historians date the end of the western Roman empire at AD 476, when the Germanic tribe under this leader deposed the emperor Romulus Augustulus.
Who is Odoacer?
500
"I converted to Christianity after a major victory and made it the state religion soon thereafter."