5156383677 | China's earliest Neolithic cultures developed in the region surrounding this body of water: | Yellow River | 0 | |
5156383678 | Traditionally, the first Chinese dynasty is was called the: | Xia | 1 | |
5156383679 | The first Chinese writing was an attempt of Shang priests to predict the future by scratching symbols on these things: | Oracle Bones | 2 | |
5156383680 | 800: The Shang and these other two dynasties in China are said to have ruled at roughly the same time: | Xia, Zhou | 3 | |
5156383681 | 1000: The idea that Chinese Emperors rule by divine right was called this: Mandate of Heaven | Mandate of Heaven | 4 | |
5156383683 | 200: This large city northeast of Mexico City was one of the largest and earliest American cities. It contained the "Temple of the Sun" which had almost the same base measurements as the Great Pyramid in Egypt: | Teotihuacán | 5 | |
5156383684 | 400: This group of people created the Americas' first "civilization" located on Mexico's gulf coast: | Olmec | 6 | |
5156383685 | 600: This was the name of the Inca capital: | Cuzco | 7 | |
5156383686 | 800: This Andean civilization is famous for creating long, straight lines and animal shapes in the rocky desert soil: | Nazca | 8 | |
5156383687 | 1000: The Mayan text that contains their creation and diluvian myths is called: | Popol Vuh | 9 | |
5156383689 | 200: Who created the Persian empire: | Cyrus the Great (II) | 10 | |
5156383690 | 400: Persian administrative districts were called: | satrapy | 11 | |
5156383691 | 600: Heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece were called: | Hoplites | 12 | |
5156383692 | 800: The name of the culture that emerged after the death of Alexander in the lands he conquered was: | Hellenistic/Hellenism | 13 | |
5156383693 | 1000: The name of the group of people (not person) who made up the first Persian Empire were called: | Achaemenids | 14 | |
5156383695 | 200: These people created the civilization that emerged on Crete around 6000 B.C.E: | Minoans | 15 | |
5156383696 | 400: The dominant leader of Athens in the fifth century and the one responsible for the construction of the Parthenon was: | Pericles | 16 | |
5156383697 | 600: This Greek Historian was the author of History of the Peloponnesian War: | Thucydides | 17 | |
5156383698 | 800: Who won the Peloponnesian War? | Sparta | 18 | |
5156383699 | 1000: He ruled the Persian Empire from 486 to 464 B.C.E. and led an assault on Greece, but was defeated by Themistocles at Salamis: | Xerxes | 19 | |
5156383701 | 200: This is the name for the Greek marketplace, or center of activity in a Polis: | Agora | 20 | |
5156383702 | 400: The name of the written language of the Phoenicians found at Knossos. Hasn't been translated yet: | Linear A | 21 | |
5156383703 | 600: The "Floating Gardens" of the Mesoamericans. These were used for agriculture in central America - floating reedbeds were covered with soil and allowed for several harvests per year, called: | Chinampas | 22 | |
5156383704 | 800: The capital of the Persian empire, that was burned to the ground by Alexander the Great: | Persepolis | 23 | |
5156383705 | 1000: Southern African stone enclosures around towns were called: | Zimbabwes | 24 | |
5156383706 | 200: The father of Alexander the Great who conquered all of Greece, hired Aristotle as a tutor for his son, and who had a dream about his own death before he was assassinated (maybe by the conspiracy of his wife Olympias): | Philip II of Macedonia. | 25 | |
5156383707 | 400: This Greek author of "The Persian Wars" is also often referred to as "the father of history": | Herodotus | 26 | |
5156383708 | 600: In addition to the Nazca, name at least 4 other Native American peoples who lived in Peru: | Chavín, Chimú, Huari, Inca, Moche | 27 | |
5156383709 | 800: This Native American civilization of the American Southwest constructed their homes in the sides of cliffs for protection, and built large round underground religious chambers called what kivas: | Anasazi | 28 | |
5156383710 | 1000: Toh Chak Ich'ak was the king of the Maya city of Tikal and one its best known kings. He was also known by this name: | Great Jaguar Paw | 29 |
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