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| 10609134353 | Rosetta Stone | Bouchard discovered it in the Nile Delta. Young and Champollion decoded it. Made in 200 BCE. Decoded hieroglyphics. | 0 | |
| 10609134354 | Troy | Heinrich Schliemann discovered it in Hisarlik, Turkey. This fell around 1200 BCE. Helped establish modern archaeology. | 1 | |
| 10609138930 | Nineveh's Assyrian Library | Austen Layard discovered it in the Kuyunjik mound. Decoded cuneiform. | 2 | |
| 10609138931 | King Tut's Tomb | Howard Carter discovered it in the Valley of the Kings. Explains Egyptian burial tombs. | 3 | |
| 10609140495 | Machu Picchu | Hiram Bingham discovered it in the Peruvian Jungle. Insight into the Lost City of the Inca. | 4 | |
| 10609140496 | Pompeii | Found by a farmer in Southern Italy near Mount Vesuvius. Insight into Roman culture. | 5 | |
| 10609142472 | Dead Sea Scrolls | Bedouin boys discovered it in Qumran. Revolutionized perception of early Christianity. | 6 | |
| 10609142473 | Thera | Spyridon Marinatos discovered it in the Aegean Sea. Gives us an understanding of Mediterranean sea trade. | 7 | |
| 10609143914 | Olduvai Gorge | The Leakey family discovered it in East Africa. Supported theory of evolution. | 8 | |
| 10609148369 | Tomb of 10,000 Warriors | Farmers discovered it in China. Made in 220 BCE. Awakened western interest in Chinese history. | 9 | |
| 10609148370 | Period 1 | 8000 BCE - 600 BCE | 10 | |
| 10609149772 | Paleolithic Age | Nomads, homo sapiens, tribal bands, hunting and gathering. | 11 | |
| 10609151557 | Nomads | People who traveled for food and shelter. | 12 | |
| 10609151558 | Homo sapiens | Humans | 13 | |
| 10609154302 | Tribal Bands | Groups of people with strong kinship ties that travel together to hunt and gather food. | 14 | |
| 10609154303 | Hunting and Gathering | People who hunted for food or gathered from wild plants. | 15 | |
| 10609155733 | Neolithic Age | Neolithic revolution, slash and burn agriculture, bronze age, catal huyuk, domestication, civilization. | 16 | |
| 10609155734 | Neolithic Revolution | Gateway to Neolithic Age. | 17 | |
| 10609157686 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | A farming technique where you burn the trees, and farm until you can't anymore, then move to another field. | 18 | |
| 10609157687 | Bronze Age | End of the Stone Age. Start of metalworking. | 19 | |
| 10609160405 | Catal Huyuk | Neolithic village in southern Turkey. | 20 | |
| 10609160406 | Domestication | Process of taming an animal. | 21 | |
| 10609162311 | Civilization | Defined by specialization of labor and an agricultural surplus. | 22 | |
| 10609162312 | Mesopotamia | Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. City-states, ziggurats, Hammurabi, cuneiform, Babylonians, Sumerians, monotheism, Phoenicians. | 23 | |
| 10609164848 | City-states | Made by Sumerian political structures. Ruled by a king who claimed divine authority. | 24 | |
| 10609164849 | Ziggurats | Temples used as a monument in Sumerian civilizations. | 25 | |
| 10609166426 | Hammurabi | Ruled the Babylonians. Created the first known code of law. | 26 | |
| 10609166427 | Cuneiform | First writing language. | 27 | |
| 10609166428 | Babylonians | Helped bring civilization to other parts of the Middle East. | 28 | |
| 10609168588 | Sumerians | Developed cuneiform. | 29 | |
| 10609170009 | Monotheism | Jewish religion. Basis to Christianity. | 30 | |
| 10609170010 | Phoenicians | Made a 22 letter alphabet. | 31 | |
| 10609172416 | Ancient Egyptian Society | Pharaoh, pyramids, matrilineal. | 32 | |
| 10609172417 | Pharaoh | Possessed tons of power. | 33 | |
| 10609174238 | Pyramids | Godlike structures for pharaohs. | 34 | |
| 10609174239 | Matrilineal | Having kinship with female side of the family. | 35 | |
| 10609176975 | Indus River Valley | Harappa, Indo-Europeans. | 36 | |
| 10609176976 | Harappa | Lived in Indus River Valley. Had running water. | 37 | |
| 10609178468 | Indo-Europeans | Speakers of Indo-European languages. | 38 | |
| 10609178469 | Shang Dynasty | Between Yellow and Yang-tse rivers. Ideographs. | 39 | |
| 10609180057 | Ideographs | Symbols that expressed ideas on paper. | 40 | |
| 10609189729 | Rift Valley of East Africa | Where did the genetic ancestor of all modern humans live? | 41 | |
| 10609193757 | Tools and Weapons | How did people make up for their lack of natural weapons? | 42 | |
| 10609195364 | Fire | What invention gave us smaller stomachs, bigger brains, and functions to protect us from predators? | 43 | |
| 10609195365 | Hunting in Packs | What is the hunting technique that we share with wolves? | 44 | |
| 10609201234 | They could tailor clothes | Why were the clothes in this period better than clothes humans used before? | 45 | |
| 10609206726 | Heightened Senses | What advantages do humans gain by hunting with wolves? | 46 | |
| 10609210195 | Threw seeds in the trash | What did the first farmer observe that led her to the idea of farming? | 47 | |
| 10609212501 | Disease | What was the problem that was introduced when people settled in villages? | 48 | |
| 10609212502 | Theft and War | Land ownership and agriculture led to what ongoing problem? | 49 | |
| 10609217914 | New ways of religion | All the death from disease and war led to what other invention? | 50 | |
| 10609339468 | Grain and Beer | How did they pay the pyramid builders? | 51 | |
| 10609339469 | Writing | What invention allowed Hemiunu to organize the pyramid workers? | 52 | |
| 10609341758 | Made it a competition | What did they do to inspire the pyramid builders to work faster? | 53 | |
| 10609344916 | Broken bones in cemeteries | What evidence do we have of accidents among the pyramid workers? | 54 | |
| 10609346611 | Clay Tablet Letters | How do we know so much about Imdi Ilum? | 55 | |
| 10609346612 | Bandits | What did Amur face on the tin-trading trip? | 56 | |
| 10609362262 | Key to world trade networks | Why was Megiddo important? | 57 | |
| 10609363824 | First battle in history | What was significant about Tutmoses' battle at Megiddo? | 58 | |
| 10609366397 | Went first into Megiddo | How did Tutmoses prove he was able to lead his people? | 59 | |
| 10609369123 | He'd kill the children | How did Tutmoses ensure that the people near Megiddo never rose against him? | 60 | |
| 10609369124 | Iron | What new material brought the era of the godlike king to an end? | 61 | |
| 10611408568 | Venus of Willendorf (Fertility Goddess) |  | 62 | |
| 10611428611 | Hebrews | Religious text was the Torah | 63 | |
| 10611430799 | SPICE | Social, Political, Intellectual, Culture, Environment | 64 | |
| 10611441882 | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | NOT CIVILIZATIONS | 65 | |
| 10611447254 | Olmecs | "Mother" civilization of Mesoamerica. | 66 |
