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| ancient Rome |
a civilization cultivated by the city-state of Rome from the 8th century B.C.E. through its development as a republic and its collapse as an empire in the 5th century A.D. |
| Cheng Tang |
first leader of the Shang dynasty of China, ruling in approximately the seventeenth century B.C.E. (exact dates contested). |
| Great Pyramid of Giza |
a limestone and granite pyramid, which is the oldest and only remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, built circa 2500 B.C.E. as a memorial and tomb for King Khufu, the second king of the fourth Egyptian dynasty. |
| Sesheshet |
the mother of King Teti, the Egyptian ruler who was the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty in the third millenium B.C.E. |
| Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
a list first compiled in the 2nd century B.C.E. of seven remarkable constructions of classical antiquity. |
| Shang Dynasty |
the second Chinese dynasty, in power for approximately six hundred years, starting in the late eighteenth or seventeenth century B.C.E. (exact dates contested). |
| Teti |
the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, reigning in the middle of the third millenium B.C.E. (2345 B.C.E.?-- 2333 B.C.E?). |
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