The Fertile region of the Middle East where humans first started to practice agriculture had this shape

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Dante's tour guide in the inferno

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The tale of this Sumerian king & his search for immortality has a subplot of a great flood

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The Golden Age of Greece which lends so much to Western Culture (government, art, philosophy, drama and literature) started with victory in the Persian Wars but ended with this one

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BCE represents the same era of time as

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Landless peasants did most of the farm work in this socioeconomic system with the nobility on top & the serfs below

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This saint wrote his tome "City of God" and "Confessions"

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Most of Plato's works are written in this form; Socrates is among the speakers in all but one

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Suetonius wrote that this emperor said he "found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble"

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Lycurgus, lawgiver of this militaristic city-state, thought having more than one garment made men effeminate

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In the 13th century this saint & philosopher tried to sum up all religious thought in "Summa Theologica"

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In this medieval literary work, Judas is found in the lowest circle of hell being gnawed on by Satan

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In the second Punic War, this Carthaginian general almost defeated Rome

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Tragedy is "the imitation of an action...arousing pity and fear... to accomplish its (a)  

Goddess popular in Rome and throughout the middle ages famous for her wheel.

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Virgil is the one who really tells about this gift from the Greeks

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This Babylonian king's code states that if a son strikes his father, the son's hands shall be cut off

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At the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D. this French leader "hammered" the Muslims, halting their conquest of Europe

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"Socrates: the only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know" this

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According to "The Republic", we live in this dark place where we only see the shadows of reality

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Remnants of the falling Roman Empire somehow halted an invasion by this man & his Huns in 451 A.D.

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Henry V & Joan of Arc both fought in this war considered the longest in history

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Organized religion, government, culture, social class, stable food supply, written language are characteristics of what we call this

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We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use like Stone Age, (a)   age, and Iron Age

Latin name for the period of general peace and prosperity across the Roman Empire

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Thomas Aquinas relied heavily on and integrated his work with this philosopher

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Plato wrote that this guy blushed after dismantling his justice is in the interest of the stronger idea.

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4 knights took out this "meddlesome priest" in 1170

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Abandon all hope all ye who enter is the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell in this Dante work

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Julius Caesar famously said, “The die is cast” when he crossed which river?

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Venus provides guidance to this Trojan hero fated to become an ancestor to the Romans.

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Facing massive starvation during the Peloponnesian War, Athens surrendered to this rival city in 404 B.C.

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The word pharaoh originally referred to a palace, but in the 18th of these the word began to refer to the kings themselves

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It began in earnest in 1337 when Edward of England named himself King of France & invaded

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The two rivers in Mesopotamia are the Euphrates and

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What modern day country best describes the location of Mesopotamia?

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This emperor reigned for 38 years, built the Hagia Sophia Cathedral, survived the Nika Revolt & married Theodora

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Hypatia, the first known female mathematician, lived & taught with her father Theon in this Egyptian port city

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Dante's tour guide in the inferno

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Hitler came up with the idea of the Third Reich (or third kingdom), the first kingdom began with Charlemagne called

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Pope Urban II launched the first of the these as an attempt to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims

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Language pretty much everyone spoke thanks to Alexander

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Babylonia & Sumer were civilizations in this ancient region that gave us a little something called civilization

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Zoroastrianism, the religion of this ancient Land has a good god: Ahura Mazda & a bad spirit: Ahriman

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Trajan brought this Empire to it's height

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This legendary tower of the Bible has been popularly associated with the ziggurat of Marduk

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Diogenes, Euclid & Pythagoras are but a few of the "students" seen emerging from this Raphael work

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In the 8th century this empire based in what's now Istanbul began its policy of iconoclasm, or "idol smashing"

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Scholasticism is a term for the philosophies & thinking & ideas coming out of (a)   , as opposed to out of the church

Cuneiform was how they did it in Mesopotamia; Hieroglyphics is how they did here...

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Don't be phobic about giving us this name for the central market & meeting place of many ancient Greek cities

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The cultural center (city) with the largest library in ancient times

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The Stone Age is divided into periods. What is the most recent called?

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The vestal virgins were Roman priestesses in service of Vesta, and were to be keepers of this

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Only one of the poems of this Greek poetess has survived in its entirety, although there are many fragments

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Olympias set a precedent for women in Hellenistic monarchies: women to appear with armies, co-rule, she also mothered & influenced him

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This adjective referring to the Middle Ages is from the Latin words "medium" & "aevum", which mean middle age

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He marched on his own city for the first time in the Roman Republic's history to grab for himself political control that had been awarded to Marius

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Oldest known epic tale of western Civilization?

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A macro view of history and time going somewhere is called

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The Hebrew tribe was unique for their commanded "day of rest" also called this

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82 A.D.: Domitian adds a level of nosebleed seats to this amphitheater so more Romans can watch gladiators bleed

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The word draconian, as in punishments, comes from the Athenian Draco & his severe system of these

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Wordle of the day: This 5-letter word means "city-state", a principal unit in the Greek political system

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Oldest & best preserved of the 7 ancient wonders

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The simplest explanation is preferred:

" (a)   's razor"

First legal document to limit the authority of the king

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Defense was a major reason to move the Roman capital here

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Ancient Athens went from Monarchy to Aristocracy to Tyranny to this

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Forget Quickbooks, this first writing system in Mesopotamia which is mostly financial transactions

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First emperor "of Akkad" conquered all of Mesopotamia

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Ostrakon, the pottery fragment used to vote for banishment, gave us this word for exclusion

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Plato & Aristotle gave this word for a teacher the meaning "one who quibbles & argues deviously"

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After these: Thermopylae, Marathon, Salamis and Plataea; Greece did not blow a 3-1 lead in this conflict

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Athenian statesman is known for building projects on the Acropolis and a speech

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Stoicism, which taught a form of naturalistic monotheism, originated in

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This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple

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"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone." This refers to a Pyrrhic (a)  

The latin word, plebescite is a word for this and comes from resolutions voted by the Plebeian Assembly of Rome & a topic every 4 years in the US.

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At least 19 of the first 50 of them, including Galba & Caligula, were assassinated

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