History unit 4

Question 1

c. c. 2,800,000 BCE

Answer 1

Humans emerge on Earth in Africa

Question 2

Homo sapiens emerge on Earth
in modern-day Kenya

Answer 2

c. 300,000 BCE

Question 3

Dogs are domesticated in Siberia
(first domesticated animal)

Answer 3

c. 30,000 BCE

Question 4

Earliest permanent settlement
(in modern-day Czech Republic)

Answer 4

c. 23,000 BCE

Question 5

The Ice Age (Last Glacial Maximum) ends;
last non-homo sapiens humans die out

Answer 5

c. 12,000 BCE

Question 6

Earliest domesticated plants, first
in modern-day Middle East, then worldwide

Answer 6

c. 10,000 BCE

Question 7

The Sumerians of Iraq invent civilization

Answer 7

c. 4000 BCE

Question 8

Norte Chico (Caral-Supe) of
Peru invents civilization

Answer 8

c. 3500 BCE

Question 9

Egypt unites as the first true country

Answer 9

c. 3100 BCE

Question 10

Enheduanna first named author in history;
dad Sargon the Akkadian makes 1st empire (in Iraq)

Answer 10

2334

Question 11

Xia Dynasty (1st Chinese dynasty) begins

Answer 11

2070 BCE

Question 12

First phases of Austronesian, Bantu,
Indo-European migrations (Indian & Pacific
Oceans; Sub-Saharan Africa; Eurasia)

Answer 12

2000-1000 BCE

Question 13

The Canaanites of the modern-day Levant
(Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine)
invent the alphabet (𐤂𐤁𐤀)

Answer 13

1800 BCE

Question 14

The Olmec of modern-day Mexico
invent civilization in Central America; Shang Dynasty (2nd Chinese dynasty) begins and literacy emerges in China & Mexico

Answer 14

c. 1600 BCE

Question 15

The earliest texts of Hinduism recorded in India (#4 largest religious perspective)

Answer 15

c. 1500 BCE

Question 16

The Silver/Eternal Treaty: Ramses II of Egypt &
Hattusili III of Hatti (in modern-day Turkey)
sign the first superpower defense pact

Answer 16

1259 BCE

Question 17

Bronze Age Collapse (civil war, migration, political collapse from Mediterranean Sea to
Black Sea to the Persian Gulf to Lake Chad

Answer 17

1200-1100 BCE

Question 18

Canaanites establish the colony of Gadir in modern-day Cádiz, Spain at start of a wave of accommodation-based migration

Answer 18

1104 BCE

Question 19

1046 BCE

Answer 19

Zhou Dynasty (3rd Chinese dynasty) begins

Question 20

The first Olmec city is abandoned
(in modern-day Mexican State of Veracruz);
first Maya city is created (in modern-day Mexican State of Tabasco); second civilization of Peru, the Chavín, emerge (in modern-day Peruvian state of Ancash)

Answer 20

c. 900 BCE

Question 21

c. 300,000 BCE

Answer 21

Homo sapiens emerge on Earth
in modern-day Kenya

Question 22

Humans emerge on Earth in Africa

Answer 22

c. 2,800,000 BCE

Question 23

c. 10,000 BCE

Answer 23

Domesticated plants

Question 24

c. 4000 BCE

Answer 24

First civ in iraq

Question 25

2334 BCE

Answer 25

Enheduanna first named author in history; dad Sargon the Akkadian makes 1st empire (in Iraq)

Question 26

2000 - 1000 BCE

Answer 26

First phases of Austronesian, Bantu, Indo-European migrations (Indian & Pacific Oceans; Sub-Saharan Africa; Eurasia)

Question 27

c. 1800 BCE

Answer 27

The Canaanites of the modern-day Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine) invent the alphabet (𐤂𐤁𐤀)

Question 28

1500 BCE

Answer 28

The earliest texts of Hinduism recorded in India (#4 largest religious perspective)

Question 29

1200 - 1100 BCE

Answer 29

Bronze Age Collapse (civil war, migration, political collapse from Mediterranean Sea to Black Sea to the Persian Gulf to Lake Chad)

Question 30

Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser III creates first true postal service for use in an empire from Iraq to Levant to Turkey to Egypt to Iran

Answer 30

858 BCE

Question 31

Canaanite Elissa (Dido) of Tyre in modern-day Lebanon creates the city-state of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia

Answer 31

816 BCE

Question 32

Philosophy emerges, in India (800) then China (700) then Greece (600)

Answer 32

c.800 - 600 BCE

Question 33

c. 800 - 600 BCE

Answer 33

Philosophy emerges, in India (800) then China (700) then Greece (600)

Question 34

First Olympic Games in modern-day Western Greece Region province of modern-day Greece; Greeks now using alphabet (ΑΒΓ)

Answer 34

776 BCE

Question 35

City of Rome created in modern-day Italy by Latin-led admixture of outcasts and farmers

Answer 35

753 BCE

Question 36

753 BCE

Answer 36

City of Rome created in modern-day Italy by Latin-led admixture of outcasts and farmers

Question 37

Nubian King Piye (from modern-day Sudan) is first outsider to conquer all of Egypt

Answer 37

744 BCE

Question 38

Assyrian monarch Ashurbanipal creates first true library near modern-day Mosul, Iraq

Answer 38

646 BCE

Question 39

Etrsucan Tanaquil establishes her family as the Tarquin Dynasty (last 3 of 7 kings of Rome), moving from Etruria (modern Tuscany in Italy); Latin alphabet emerges in her time (ABC).

Answer 39

616 BCE

Question 40

Nabonidus, King of Babylon near modern-day Baghdad, Iraq, oversees first archaeological excavations & first museum of artifacts

Answer 40

552 BCE

Question 41

Cyrus the Great’s newborn Persian Empire (centered in modern-day Iran) conquers Babylon and returns conquered ethnic groups to homelands while scaling back forced labor

Answer 41

539 BCE

Question 42

Siddhartha Gautama, born in modern-day Lumbini Province, Nepal, reaches nirvana and becomes the Buddha in modern-day State of Bihar in India, drawing disciples and creating Buddhism (#5 largest religious perspective)

Answer 42

528 BCE

Question 43

Carthaginian Empire in modern-day Tunisia, Algeria, Spain, and Italian islands gives international recognition to the newly-created Roman Republic as the Tarquin Dynasty ends

Answer 43

509 BCE

Question 44

Kong Qiu (Confucius) quits a government role in modern-day Shandong Province of China to travel all Chinese kingdoms as a wandering philosopher, creating Confucianism (most influential philosophy for East Asia)

Answer 44

483 BCE