Geography & Farming
Early People
Early Civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Greece)
Religions/Belief Systems
When?
100
WAGER
This type of land can grow plants
Fertile land
100
If you get this right, you can take a total of 400 points from up to 4 teams
What discovery helped humans improve their brain function, nutrition, defenses, and communities?
Fire
100
What is the name of one of the very first cities in ancient India?
Mohenjo Daro
100
TRIPLE POINTS
What does polytheistic mean?
Worship/believe in more than one god
100
If you get this right, you can take 200 points from any team
What year was LaPlatney born?
1988
200
Roll the Dice! If you are wrong, you have to roll. If you are right, you can choose to roll or take the regular points
1- Lose 100 points, 2 - Gain 300 points, 3 - Give the last place team 200 points, 4 - Take 300 points from any team, 5 - Double points, 6 - no points
Give 3 examples of physical features
Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Valleys, Plateaus, Steppes, Plains, Forests, ETC
200
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1- Lose 100 points, 2 - Gain 300 points, 3 - Give the last place team 200 points, 4 - Take 300 points from any team, 5 - Double points, 6 - no points
This is the time before written history
Prehistory
200
Roll the Dice! If you are wrong, you have to roll. If you are right, you can choose to roll or take the regular points
1- Lose 100 points, 2 - Gain 300 points, 3 - Give the last place team 200 points, 4 - Take 300 points from any team, 5 - Double points, 6 - no points
Give an example of cultural diffusion
Any example including a spread of culture from one place to another
Spread of Buddhism, traders brining back new foods and languages along the silk road, etc
200
If you get this question right you can take 200 points from any team:
Who is the Egyptian god of death?
Osiris
200
WAGER
What year was Tiktok created?
2016
300
Roll the Dice! If you are wrong, you have to roll. If you are right, you can choose to roll or take the regular points
1- Lose 100 points, 2 - Gain 300 points, 3 - Give the last place team 200 points, 4 - Take 300 points from any team, 5 - Double points, 6 - no points
What are the 4 parts of a map?
Map Title, Compass Rose, Scale, Key/Legend
300
WAGER
Give an example of an artifact
Anything used by humans and/or made by humans
Books of the dead, pottery, cave art, thrones
300
WAGER
What was Pharaoh Khufu best known for?
Building the pyramids
300
WAGER
Egyptians believed that these small carved dolls could become servants in the afterlife
Shabtis
300
Roll the Dice! If you are wrong, you have to roll. If you are right, you can choose to roll or take the regular points
1- Lose 100 points, 2 - Gain 300 points, 3 - Give the last place team 200 points, 4 - Take 300 points from any team, 5 - Double points, 6 - no points
What decade did the first woman go to space?
AND Was she American?
1963 (1960s)
No, Russian
Valentina Tereshkova
400
DOUBLE POINTS
What is Topography?
The shape, elevation, and physical features of a place
400
Early people had to ________________, moving to follow their food sources. In the beginning, they found food by _______ and _________, but eventually they settled down and started to ________.
Migrate
Hunting
Gathering
Farm
400
DOUBLE POINTS
Which Chinese dynasty used Oracle Bones to ask the king's ancestors questions?
Shang Dynasty
400
In Hinduism, the cycle of ____________ continues and people are reborn until they reach ___________. In order to do this they must have good ____________ and follow their __________.
Samsara
Moksha
Karma
Dharma
400
WAGER
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007
500
2 People from your group can come up to draw a map of the world with the continents and oceans labeled. You have 2 minutes.
...
500
WAGER
What is a hominin?
A scientific family of primates which includes humans and direct ancestors
500
DOUBLE POINTS
What is feudalism?
A social structure in ancient China based on land ownership
500
What is Nirvana?
The escape from reincarnation, reaching a state of peace in Buddhism
500
DOUBLE POINTS
What decade was the first car invented?
1885-6 (1880s)
Benz Motorwagon
