The Phoenicians did not invent the alphabet. They took most of their letters from Egyptian hieroglyphs (and corrupted them a little). The Phoenician script was not an alphabet at all. It was an abjad, meaning that only consonants were written.
I also sometimes enjoy saying things that make absolutely no sense, just to see how people react to it. But I haven't tried that in the comments section here before.
There are quite a few more American civilizations that came to my mind during this quiz, like the Mississipian culture, the Anasazi, the Toltecs, and the Chimú.
For the early dominant Italian culture could you also add Etruria as a type in because Etruscans lived in Etruria, and you had the place names for many of the other questions? Thanks!
A problem I see is considering the last two answers: both the Aztecs and Inca were centuries after the fall of Rome and aren't really considered archaic, they're more post-classical but even then they're completely different societies from that of the Old World. The Olmec, Zapotec, Norte Chico, and Chavin Culture are more accurate answers to archaic societies of the Americas.
5 star quiz but still a bit easy. Would love a companion quiz that was a little harder or a little more exhaustive; there's plenty of other notable ancient civilizations.
Possibly matriarchal? That possibly is doing a lot of work. Tough to prove a negative of a culture that's been gone so long, but you would think the Egyptians would have mentioned something so highly unusual about their trading partners.
I would say it could use more time and a yellow box. (Edit: it would be a good candidate for a click quiz too!)
This way I didn't learn anything, my answers showed up at other questions which I did not have time to read.
(To all of those who can't help to give a smartass response (not you QM) Yes I know I can read the questions when the quiz is finished to learn something, but no that just doesn't work for me. It is one looong slab of text then, and when matching a question during a quiz it gets engrained. One line + a confirmation)
I will however read them all slowly now that the quiz is done. Because it is interesting subject matter. (but like I said, when it is one big unit now, nothing is likely to stick apart from something vague/general, like maya were there before both inca and aztec)
i tried scythians
"The Phoenician system is considered the first true alphabet"
“I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
The Sumerians reached their heights c 4000 BC and then the semitic Amorites slowly took over, leading to the Akkadian empire c 2200 BC.
Also, wasn't Xia the oldest dynasty?
This way I didn't learn anything, my answers showed up at other questions which I did not have time to read.
(To all of those who can't help to give a smartass response (not you QM) Yes I know I can read the questions when the quiz is finished to learn something, but no that just doesn't work for me. It is one looong slab of text then, and when matching a question during a quiz it gets engrained. One line + a confirmation)