History Images
For each image, state:
What it is
What culture it comes
from
Its significance
Image #1
Egypt
Hieroglyphics
Used by the government bureaucracy
Image #2
Sumer
Cuneiform
Help keep government
records
Image #3
Confucius
China
Most important
philosopher –
Respect & Responsibility
Image #4
Great Wall
China
Protected China from
Mongols
Image #5
Oracle Bones
China
Used to tell the future –
Proved the ancient Chinese could write
Image #7
Seal
Indus Valley
Perhaps used by merchants or the
governments as a type of logo
Image #11
Greece
Corinthian Column
Used for support
Image #12
Nike of Samothrace
Greece
Statue by Phidias
Image #13
Sumer
Ziggurat
Temple
Image #15
Illuminated Manuscript
Medieval Europe
Monks copied texts before
Europe developed the
printing press.
Image #16
Aqueducts
Rome
Brought water to the cities
Image #17
Hwang He (Hwang Ho)
China
Floods were very dangerous
but made the soil fertile
Image #18
Calligraphy
China
The written Chinese language
had thousands of characters.
Image #19
Parthenon
Greece
Temple in Athens dedicated
to Athena
Image #20
Indus Valley
Mohenjo-Daro
Shows that this ancient city was
well-planned, advanced, and laid
out in a grid pattern
Image #21
Castle
Medieval times
Castles were used throughout
Europe to provide protection
from invaders like Vikings.
Image #22
Sphinx
Egypt
Carved statue that shows
belief in many gods
Image #23
Pyramid
Egypt
Tomb for Pharaoh
Image #24
Lucy
Africa
Skeleton of a prehuman that
walked upright
Image #25
Cave painting
Paleolithic
Told stories of every day
life of a cave man
Image #26
India
Buddha
Founder of Buddhism, a religion
that grew out of Hinduism based
on Four Noble Truths and
Eightfold Path
Image #27
Hebrew
Jerusalem
First major monotheistic
religion
Image #28
Jesus
Jerusalem
His ideas led to
Christianity
Image #29
India
Painting of Hindu gods Shiva
and Parvati
Shows the Hindus believed in
one god with many faces
Image #30
Arch
Rome
Could support a large amount of
weight
Image #31
(Identify person and religion)
Moses
Judaism & Christianity
Ten Commandments that
make up the moral and ethical
code of the Hebrews
Image #32
Arrow heads
Paleolithic
hunting tools
Image #33
Another name for Mesopotamia:
__________ _____________
Fertile Crescent, AKA
Mesopotamia
Land between Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers
Located in present-day Iraq
Image #36
Rome
Pantheon
Temple built by Emperor Hadrian
and dedicated to all gods
Pantheon literally translates as “all
gods”
Image #37 (Name the river)
Nile
Egypt
River valley
Image #38
Egypt
Ramses II
Most powerful pharaoh – giant
statue indicates that pharaoh was
considered a god (theocracy)
Image #39
What is the name of
this civilization??
Indus Valley
Ancient culture that developed in
Northern (Indo-Gangetic) Plain of
India
Located in present-day Pakistan
Two cities were Harappa and
Mohenjo-Daro
Image #40
Code of Hammurabi
Babylon
First written laws
Image #41
a2
c2
b2
Whose theorem is this?
Pythagoras
Greek
Used to calculate the length of the
sides of a right triangle
Image #42
Domestication of Animals
Neolithic
So people could stay
stationary
Image #43
Pope
Bishop of Rome
Leader of Roman Catholic
Church
Image #44
Coliseum
Rome
For Gladiators to battle to
the death
Image #45
Forum
Rome
Central marketplace of the city
Image #46
Doric column
Greece
For Temples and other
buildings
Image #47
“In what war might
my great-great-great
grandfather have
participated?”
Second Punic War
Hannibal, the great general from
Carthage, used elephants as tanks
He crossed the Alps, entering the
Italian peninsula from the North
Image #48
Ionic column
Greece
For Temples and other
buildings
Image #49
?
Spanish Italian French
Latin
Language of the Romans
Mother to many other languages –
French, Spanish, Italian,
Portuguese
Not a mother language to English
Image #50
Where in
Africa was the
Lucy skeleton
found?
Ethiopia
3-4 million years ago
First prehuman to walk upright
Image #52
Vikings
Europe
Invaded Europe
Image #53
Brahmin
Kshatriya
Vaisya
Sudra
Untouchables
Caste system
India
Based on occupation – a
person could not change his
caste in a single lifetime
Image #55
Rosetta stone
Egypt
Used Greek writing to
decipher hieroglyphics
Image #56
Plato
Greek philosopher
Student of Socrates
Image #58
Manor
Europe
Self-sufficient farm that
made its own products
(This could also show the
characteristics of the Neolithic
period.)
Image #59
Fire
Paleolithic
Heated up food and lit dark
caves
Image #60
Irrigation
Used for farming in most ancient
civilizations
Water often diverted from rivers
for this purpose
Image #61
“We do not say that a
man who takes no
interest in politics
minds his own
business; we say he has
no business at all.”
Pericles
Leader during Golden Age of Athens
Believed all citizens had a
responsibility to participate in govt.
Promoted democracy, the arts,
literature
Died during Peloponnesian War
Image #62
“All doctors should
take my oath and
promise to do all they
can to save lives.”
Hippocrates
Greek
Important doctor
Image #64
Italy
Peninsula
Birth place of ancient Rome
Image #65
Olive oil
From Greece
Export that Greece traded with
other countries
Image #66
Arabia
Muslim empire
Birthplace of the Muslim religion
Image #69
DYE
Phoenicians
Made up the alphabet (related to
word “Phonics”
Great sailors
Lived on the Mediterranean coast
Image #71
What is the
ancient
name for this
country?
Palestine
Today, it’s Israel
Tension in the region between
Palestinian Muslims and Jewish
Israelis
Image #72
Old Stone Age
Learned how to speak
Wall paintings
Female statues
Fire
Image #73
Rome
Law of the Twelve Tables
Established the principle that all
citizens would be equal under the
law, innocent until proven guilty,
etc.
Image #74
Sparta
Greek city-state that fought with
Athens to be the most powerful
Fought on same side as Athens
against Persians
Beat Athens after almost 30-yearlong Peloponnesian War
Image #75
Jupiter
Ruler of Roman gods
Rome got its polytheistic religion
from the Greeks
Roman gods gave most of the
planets in our solar system their
names
Image #77
Shiva, god of destruction
Hinduism
Major religion in India
Image #78
Egypt
Polytheistic
Gods indicated strong belief in life
after death
Image #79
Italy
Rome centrally located on
seven hills on Italian peninsula
Proximity to Mediterranean
encouraged trade and contact
with other cultures
Image #80
Patricians or
plebeians?
Plebeians
Rome
Regular people – farmers,
merchants, artisans
Interests are represented by
tribunes
Image #81
Senators
Rome
Patricians who made laws
for the people of Rome
(Yes, these were U.S.
Senators. We borrowed the
custom from the Romans.)
Image #82
Asia
Largest continent
Image #83
What culture?
Sculpture
Greece
Type of art
Greek art idealized the human
body.
Image #84
“Know
yourself.”
?
Socrates
Greek
Greatest philosopher – taught
people to ask questions – killed
because he questioned the gods and
corrupted the youth of Athens
Image #85
Father of
Geometry
Euclid
Greek
Invented a mathematical system
to torture high school students
for all of history
Image #86
Rome
Venus
Goddess of love
Image #87
Iran
Present-day name for ancient
civilization of Persia
Culture that declared war on
Greece in Persian Wars
Image #88
Yin Yang
China
Opposing forces in the
universe
Image #89
Save us
from
Persia!
Athens,
save your
Greek
brothers!
Athens,
help us!
Defend our
city-state and
we’ll pay you!
Greece
Delian League
Alliance set up by Athens to
protect other Greek city-states
from Persia
Image #90
Constantine
Roman Emperor
Issued Edict of Milan to tolerate
Christians.
Set up second capital at
Constantinople.
Image #91
800 AD
Holy Roman Empire
Ruled by Charlemagne
Much of Western and Central
Europe
Image #92
Monastery
Place where monks copied
illuminated manuscripts
Monks also set up hospitals and
schools and helped travellers
Image #93
Our land is
at peace.
We are
now an
empire.
Rome
Augustus Caesar
First emperor of Roman Empire
Established Roman Peace, or
Pax Romana
Image #94
Nomads
Wander from place to place in
search of food and shelter
Humans in Paleolithic times were
nomadic
Image #95
Political Map of Europe
Birthplace of Greco-Roman culture
Heartland of Christendom
Often referred to as “The West”
Image #96
Athens
Most culturally advanced Greek
city-state
Birthplace of democracy, theater,
the Olympics, etc.
Image #97
Athens
View from the acropolis
High place from which to
defend the city
Image #98
Shang China
Founded along Hwang Ho River
Oracle bones, ritual bronzes
discovered there
Image #99
Alps
Made an invasion of Northern Italy
difficult
Hannibal was still able to invade
them
Image #100
Africa
Second-largest continent
Birthplace of human civilization
Image #101
Rome
Circus Maximus
Place for Roman chariot races, like
in “Ben Hur”
Image #102
Name
river and
religion
Ganges River
Sacred to all Hindus
Ritual bathing important for all
Hindus
Image #103
Hadrian’s Wall
Roman Empire
Built between England and
Scotland as the northern border of
the Roman Empire
Image #104
Byzantine Empire
Icon of Orthodox Christianity
Venerated painting of saints
This shows Mary and Jesus
Image #105
Kaaba
All Muslims should make one
pilgrimage to Mecca (Fifth Pillar).
Located in Mecca
Image #106
Hagia Sophia
Byzantine
Beautiful church built by
Justinian
Located in Constantinople
(Istanbul)
Image #107
Byzantine art
Mosaic
Made of small pieces of glass and
stone
Mosaics are usually religious in
theme
Image #108
China
Tomb figures
Shi Huangdi, First Emperor
Qin Dynasty
Image #110
Gothic cathedral
European
Pointed arch and stained glass
windows are important
characteristics
Image #111
Patriarch
Leader of the Orthodox Church
Language of Orthodox
Christianity is Greek, capital
was in Constantinople
Image #112
Mosque
Muslim house of worship
Can be identified by slender towers
called minarets and horseshoeshaped arch
Image #113
Icon
Byzantine painting
Venerated in Orthodox Christianity
Image #114
Byzantine mosaic
Justinian
Most powerful emperor of Eastern
Roman Empire
Responsible for Justinian Code,
Hagia Sophia, preservation of
Greco-Roman culture
Image #118
Black Sea
Made Byzantine Empire center of
international trade
Linked to Mediterranean trade by
the Bosporus Straits of
Constantinople
Image #119
Right views
Right livelihood
Right aspirations
Right mindfulness
Right speech
Right effort
Right conduct
Right contemplation
Buddhism
Eightfold Path
Middle way between life of
pleasure and life of self denial
Image #121
Gold for salt
West Africa
Two main objects traded
Salt as valuable as gold because it
could preserve food
Image #122
Whose empire is this?
Alexander the Great
Hellenistic Empire
Broke up shortly after Alexander’s
death in 322 BC
Image #124
Code of Hammurabi
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Babylon
Image #127
Crown
Worn by Kings
Used in Monarchy and occasionally
Feudalism
Image #128
Should taxes be increased by 5%
to give more money to schools?
Check one.
YES
NO
Direct Democracy
Greece
Government voting form
Image #130
Cathedral
Christianity
Wealthy
Image #131
Patricians
Rich Romans
Image #132
Greece
Citizens could vote in Athens
To be a citizen, a person had to be a nativeborn adult male
Image #133
Sparta
War city in Greece
Image #135
Chichen Itza
Mayan temple complex
Temple for polytheistic religion
Site of human sacrifices
Image #136
Korea
Physical map
Peninsula
Image #137
What two
books did I
write?
Homer was a blind epic poet
Ancient Greece
The Illiad
The Odyssey
Image #138
No God but Allah
Pray 5 times a day
Help the poor (alms)
Fast during Ramadan
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Five Pillars
Islam
Rules all Muslims are expected
to follow
Image #141
Illuminated manuscript
Islam
Rarely portrayed humans or
animals
Image #143
Charlemagne
Holy Roman Emperor
Image #144
Crusade routes
War Between Muslims and Christians for
the holy land
Image #145
Cyrillic alphabet
Form of writing
Russia
Image #146
Ivory, ebony, and perfume
Three main trading products of
Kush
Traded with Egypt
Image #148
Legion
Basic unit of the Roman army
Known for discipline
Image #149
Name the
country
Japan
Archipelago
Shintoism and Zen Buddhism are
the two main religions
Image #151
Macchu Picchu
South America
Incan ruins
Image #152
I want to conquer the
world!
Let’s combine
Greek culture
with Syrian,
Egyptian, Persian,
and Indian
influences.
Alexander the Great
Combined cultures while taking
over the surrounding world
Created Hellenistic empire by
encouraging intermarriage
Image #153
You poked
out my
eyes! I’ll
do the
same to
you!
You can’t!
You’re poor!
Take the
money and
shut up!
Code of Hammurabi
Law in Babylon
Some people are better then others
Image #155
A
D
C
B
A = Italy
B = Mediterranean Sea
C = Greece
D = Asia Minor
Image #156
Torah
Holy book of the Jews, the oldest
monotheistic religion
Image #157
Germany
Location of tribes that tried to
invade the Roman Empire
Origin of English language
Image #159
Arabic calligraphy
Official language of Islam
The Quran is written in Arabic
Many Arabic styles of writing
Image #160
What country?
Old England
Rocky terrain
Surrounded by water
Image #161
Since I’m
tied to the
land, I might
as well be a
slave.
Serfs
Medieval Europe
Not allowed to leave the manor
or marry without permission
Different from slaves since they
could not be bought or sold
Image #162
France
First united under Hugh Capet
Image #163
St. Basil’s Cathedral
Orthodox Church
Russia
Image #164
Daoism (Taoism)
Founded by Laozi
Chinese philosophy
Emphasizes harmony with nature,
limited government
Image #165
Golden Horn
Bosporus Strait that separates
Cosntantinople (Istanbul) into an
Asian side and a European side
Image #166
Who will
represent our
interests?
Republic
Government in which people elect
leaders to represent their interests
Rome was the first republic
The U.S. is a democratic republic
Image #167
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican City
Capital of Roman Catholic Church,
located in Rome
Image #168
Ruler to subject
Father to son
Husband to wife
Older to younger brother
Friend to friend
Confucianism
Five Relationships
Each person owes respect to the
superior, and has responsibility to
the inferior
Image #169
Diaspora
Scattering of Jews that took
place worldwide after the
Romans’ destruction of the
Temple in 66 AD
Image #170
What is the white
line called?
Equator
Divides the world into two halves Northern and Southern
Hemispheres
Image #172
Silk Road
Route used to exchange Chinese
silk with goods from Rome and/or
Fertile Crescent
Image #173
Buddha
Founder of Buddhism, major
religion in Asia
Image #174
Peace and
Prosperity
Founding
Decline
Overthrow
Dynastic cycle
China
Chinese believed when the ruler
lost the Mandate of Heaven, it was
okay to overthrow him
Image #175
Persian Wars
Between Persia and the Greek citystates
Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to tell
the people of Athens that their
army beat the Persians at
Marathon.
Image #176
Germanic invasions of Rome
Fifth century AD
One of many factors that caused
Western Roman Empire to fall
Image #177
Asoka
Mauryan Emperor of India who
converted to Buddhism because of
its nonviolent philosophy
Encouraged religious toleration
Carved Edicts (orders) at base of
pillars
Image #178
Wailing Wall
Jerusalem
All that remains of great Jewish
Temple destroyed by Romans in 66
AD
Image #180
Medieval manor
Self-sufficient village based on
farming
Serfs provided the main labor
source on the manor
Image #182
Persia
Ruins of ancient city of
Persepolis
Located in present-day Iran
Image #183
Muslim art
Arabesque
Geometric and floral patterns used
in Islamic art because Koran
discourages representations of
human figures
Image #184
Euphrates River
One of the two rivers in
Mesopotamia
Located in present-day
Turkey and Iraq
Image #185
Shintoism
Local religion unique to Japan
that worships the emperor,
nature, and ancestors
Clan spirits of ancestors were
known as kami.
Image #186
Islam
Daily prayer
The Five Pillars require
Muslims to pray five times a
day facing Mecca.
Image #188
South America
Political map
Image #189
Silk
First made by the Chinese around
1000 BC
Much desired by people in the
Middle East
Image #190
Temple of Apollo at Delphi
People would go there to ask
questions of the oracle
The oracle was a person who
people believed could speak to the
gods
Image #191
In what kind of
climate would you
find these animals?
Africa
Savanna
Largest climate region in Africa
Image #192
Appian Way
Most famous of all Roman roads
Connected Rome and Southeastern
Italy
Was used for over 1,000 years
Image #193
Plato was my
favorite teacher;
Alexander the
Great was my
favorite student.
Aristotle
Master of many fields of
knowledge
First philosopher to classify plants
and animals
Image #194
Buddhist practices
Monks create a mandala from
memory
Buddhist prayer wheel
Buddhists believe in reincarnation
What treaty?
Image #197
Treaty of Verdun
Divided Charlemagne’s empire into
three parts
Charles the Bald got most of
present-day France, Louis the
German got most of present-day
Germany, and Lothair got a strip of
land in the middle
Image #200
Spartacus
Led a slave revolt against Rome
in 73 BC
He and all his followers were
crucified.
Image #201
Maya culture
Group of different city-states
found in Mexico and Central
America
Religion and ritual very
important
Image #206
Map of the Aztec Empire
Located in the Valley of Mexico
Tenochtitlan was the capital
Image #207
Egypt
Nile River
Northeast Africa
Image #209
Rome
Major buildings are Pantheon,
Coliseum, Column of Trajan
Architecture of the city reflected
Greek influences
Image #210
Caravan
Sahara
Trade routes brought goods
from West Africa through the
desert to Egypt or the Middle
East
Image #212
Byzantine Empire
Eastern half of the Roman Empire
Most powerful under Justinian
Wealthy and prosperous because of
international trade
Image #213
Knight
Middle Ages
Under system of feudalism,
knights fought for the king in
exchange for land.
Image #215
Egypt
Pharaoh
Ruler of Egypt; also considered a
god
Image #217
Sahara Desert
Located in North Africa
Expanding because of the process
of desertification
Image #221
Baptism
Holy Orders
Confession
Marriage
Communion
Anointing of the Sick
Confirmation
Sacraments
Rituals of the Roman Catholic
Church
Believed, especially by medieval
Christians, to be necessary for
salvation (going to heaven)
Image #222
Sure!
Will you protect
my kingdom in
exchange for land?
Feudalism
Used in Medieval Europe and
China
Exchange of land for military
service
Image #225
Cultural diffusion
An idea or thing starts in one culture and
spreads quickly to other cultures, usually
because of trade contacts
Buddhism came to China this way
Greek culture spread throughout Mediterranean
world during Hellenistic period
Image #226
Dome of the Rock
Muslim mosque
Located in Jerusalem (the third
holiest city of Islam
Image #227
Mongol warriors
Skilled in horsemanship and
archery
Took over much of China and
Russia in 1200s
Image #228
Darius
Persia
Organized imperial bureaucracy
Image #231
476 AD
Fall of Western half of the Roman
Empire
Germanic tribes overran all of Rome
Dark Ages begin in Europe
Roman culture continues in the
Byzantine Empire for another
thousand years
Image #232
Greek alphabet
Language of the Hellenistic
culture created by Alexander
the Great, the Byzantine
Empire, and the Greek
Orthodox Church
Image #233
1215
AD
Magna Carta
Document King John signed in
1215 AD
First official limit ever placed on
royal power
Image #234
509 BC
Rome
Founding of the republic
Etruscan king was overthrown in
this year and Rome founded its
first representative government
Image #235
Hierarchy
A type of social ranking system
where power and wealth are not
distributed evenly
Common to all river valleys
Image #237
Stonehenge
England
Stone Age site