Ancient History Flashcards
Astronomical site in Britain c. 1800 B.C.
Stonehenge
Religion founded by Lao Tzu 520 B.C.
Taoism
Counting table built by Chinese 550 B.C.
Abacus
Legal law giver to Athens 621 B.C.
Draco
Games started in Greece 776 B.C.
Olympics
Greek war in Asia Minor c. 1260 B.C.
Trojan War
Ancient mariners from Tyre
Phoenicians (founded Carthage)
Human relative extinct for 30 thousand years
Neanderthal
He created Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II
Riddle Alexander solved
Gordian Knot
Indo-European people of Turkey c. 1900 B.C.
Hitttites
Construction project in Egypt c. 2600 B.C.
Great Pyramid of Cheops
Ancient Mesopotamian City
Babylon (on Euphrates River)
Ancient City of Asia Minor
Troy
Capital of the Assyrian Empire
Nineveh
Ancient Sicilian City
Syracuse
Ancient North African City
Carthage
Ancient Sumerian City
Ur
Earliest known walled city c. 9 000 B.C.
Jericho
Legal Code giver of Babylon c. 1780 B.C.
Hammurabi
Ancient Egyptian obelisk
Celopatra’s Needle
Original location of Elgin Marbles
Parthenon
Artifact that was key to decipherment of Egyptian heiroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
Man-made relic
Artifact
Ancient Japanese warrior
Samurai (those who serve)
Ancient land “between two rivers”
Mesopotamia
Empire of Darius and Xerxes
Persian Empire
Central Asia caravan route c 110 B.C.
Silk Road
King of Macedonia 336 B.C.
Alexander the Great
Ancient Egyptian book found in tombs
Book of the dead
Ancient Egyptian “City of the Sun”
Heliopolis
Site of great library c. 290 B.C.
Alexandria
Modern location of Ur and Palmyra
Syria
