Mesopotamia
What are the names of the two rivers in the region of Mesopotamia?
Both gets you an extra 100 points
Tigris and Euphrates River
What is the name of either country the Indus River Valley Runs through?
India and Pakistan
What is the name of the two rivers that create the great Nile River?
The White and Blue Nile River
Huang He
Who are the winners of the last 9 out of 10 Heroes Game?
Iowa Hawkeyes
4 out of these last 10 games were decided by a walk-off field goal by Iowa
What is the name for the writing system used by the Sumerians? What type of writing system is it for an extra 100 points?
cuneiform and glyphs
What are the two names of the cities associated with this civilization? Half points for one answer.
Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
What is the name of the large monument with the head of a human and body of a lion?
The sphinx
What type of writing system did the Shang Dynasty use that is similar to modern China's?
What is the ornament missing from the teacher's Star Wars collection?
Hint: In the lore, it's owned first by Lando Calrissian and then Han Solo
Millenium Falcon
What are the names of the 3 major cities in ancient Sumer
Ur, Uruk, and Kish
What type of print made with wax and stone had pictures of different animals and figures?
Seals
What was the name for the document placed with the deceased in their tombs, what was the name of the Egyptian underworld?
DAILY DOUBLE
Book of the Dead and the Duat
What is the name for the metal and fabric the Shang Dynasty was well known for?
Half points for one answer
Bronze and silk
The word "alphabet" comes from what two letters of the Ancient Greek alphabet and what are the first two letters of the Ancient Greek alphabet
1. Alpha and beta
How did the kings of the cities justify their rule and control the people? Half points for one of the two answers:
Religion and ruling through religion and fear
What is the name of the writing system used by the Indus River Valley civilization?
Trick question: none that we know of
What are the two different ways hieroglyphs could be read?
Vertically top to bottom and then right to left
OR
Right to left horizontally
Both answers are needed for points, no half points
DAILY DOUBLE
Dynasty-the passing of control over a nation/empire down through family lines (hereditary) and they justified their control through the religion.
What is the name of the car Mr. Jensen used to own?
Ford Mustang
What is the name given to a city that behaves like an independent country and controls the land surrounding the itself?
city-state
No half points
1. Religion was personal/private matter, not public
2. The richest landowning families
What is the name of the mixture that was placed in bodies to mummify them? Bonus: How many days did it take?
I need the name NOT the ingredients
Natron and 40-60 days
What are the names of the two types of religious practices done in the Shang Dynasty that included rituals like divining answers from spirits and dead relatives using oracle bones?
Animism and ancestor worship
Football and 24 people