Mr. D.'s Jeopardy Review Game

Paleo and Neo Lithic

100

• Earth is approximately _______________ billion years old.

4.7

200

• The history of the human species has occupied roughly the past ___________________ years.

250,000

300

• The Paleolithic era represents over _________ percent of the time that human beings have inhabited the earth.

95

400

• Paleolithic people created a multitude of separate and distinct _______________________.

Societies

500

• Each paleolithic society had its own history, _____________, language, identity, stories, and rituals.

Culture

Paleolithic Art and Neolithic Culture

100

• Art is subject to many ______________________, and the experience of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples may not reflect the distant past.

Interpretations

200

• The oldest known ______________________ art wasn't created in a cave.

Prehistoric

300

• Caves themselves help to protect and preserve the art on their walls, making them rich historical records for _________________________ to study.

archaeologists 

400

• The chief feature of the long Paleolithic era — and the first human process to operate on a global scale—was the initial settlement of the _______________.

earth

500

• The religious or spiritual dimension of Paleolithic __________________ has been hard to pin down, because bones and stones tell us little about what people thought.

Culture

First Civilizations

100

• Sumer is located within the ancient civilization of _____________________________________.

Mesopotamia 

200

• A ________________________________ is a complex society with five characteristics: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.

Civilization

300

• The region of Africa that ancient Egypt is located is _________________________.

North-east

400

• Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the _________________________.

Fertile Crescent

500

• The ________________________ valley in northeastern Africa witnessed the emergence of Egyptian civilization.

Nile-River

Ancient Mesopotamia

100

• A _____________________ system is a physical display of a spoken language.

Writing

200

• Cuneiform comes from the Latin word cuneus for ___________________ owing to the wedge-shaped style of writing.

Wedge

300

• Mesopotamia was comprised of ______________________.

City-states

400

• By _______________ B.C., Mesopotamia was firmly under the control of the Sumerian people.

3,000

500

• _________________ contained several decentralized city-states— Eridu , Nippur , Lagash , Uruk, Kish and Ur.

Sumer

Miscellaneous

100

Where did hip-hop music begin?

The Bronx, New York

200

How old are modern humans?

Roughly 200,000 years old

300

What continent is America on?

North America

400

Is West Virginia east or west of the Mississippi River?

East

500

What ancient civilization was located in modern day Peru?

Norte Chico