#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: The classical age often refers to the time of these 2 ancient Western civilizations Greece & Rome |
#6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: Babylonia & Sumer were civilizations in this ancient region that gave us a little something called civilization Mesopotamia |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: The Achaemenid empire lasted for about 200 years until it was defeated in the battle of Arbela by this Macedonian Alexander the Great |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton the Indus |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1200: In the 5th century B.C., Herodotus wrote that these people of northeastern Italy were from Lydia in Asia Minor the Etruscans |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $2000: The Tiahuanaco empire based around this lake now in Bolivia & Peru flourished between 500 & 900 A.D. Lake Titicaca |
#6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) At its peak in the 14th century, this West African empire that bears the name of a present-day country covered almost half a million square miles Mali |
#3700, aired 2000-10-06 | A COUNTRY IN EUROPE $200: Most ruins of the civilizations of the ancient Spartans & Athenians can be found in this European nation Greece |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country Iraq |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: While conquering this ancient empire, Alexander the Great burned the buildings of Persepolis, its capitol Persia |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $600: It took more than 2,000,000 2-ton blocks of stone to build the great pyramid of this man Cheops |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: In 1700 B.C. this civilization's great palace at Knossos was destroyed by an earthquake Minoans |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1000: The civilization that grew up along this Pakistani river had planned streets & houses with bathrooms Indus |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $600: Some ancient civilizations used salt cakes as a form of this, as Indians used wampum Currency |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians' pottery was the first made on this device Potter's wheel |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: Ezekiel prophesized for the Israelites during this "captivity" Babylonian Captivity |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $600: This city's different ages are given Roman numerals; it's believed the "Homeric" one was VIIa Troy |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Persia kept switching sides in this 424-405 B.C. war depending on who was winning , Sparta or Athens The Peloponnesian War |
#2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1000: The Incas called their area Tawantinsuyu, The Land of the 4 Quarters, with this Peruvian city as its center Cuzco |