Rivers
This river was the location of the Ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This is the name given to the leader of Ancient Egypt.
Who/What is the Pharaoh?
This was the capital city of the Ancient Shang Dynasty?
What is Erligang? (Air-Lih-Gong)
This group was known for the creation of large heads depicting leaders and gods.
Who/What are the Olmec?
What is procrastination?
This river was the location of the civilization with the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
Both the Egyptians and Mesopotamians used this type of writing system that utilizes symbols to represent sounds made by your voice.
What are glyphs/glyphic writing system?
This advanced technology by the Indus people allowed for the disposal of waste and prevent flooding of their cities.
What is a sewer system?
This group was known as the early precursors to the Aztec civilization.
Who/What are the Zapotec?
This term is used by Thanos when describing the eventuality of his success, no matter what the Avengers do to try to stop him. "I am ______"
What is "inevitable?"
This river is the location of the Shang Dynasty.
What is the Yellow River? (Huang He)
These are likely the first two cities ever created in the Mesopotamian civilization.
What is Ur and Uruk?
Both of these civilizations had writing systems. The names for each civilization were...
What are seals (Indus) and pictograms (Shang)?
This term is used to describe a group or groups of peoples who create the basis for future civilizations' traditions and practices.
What is a mother culture?
This is the term used to describe the amount of time used to travel one picometer, also similarly used to describe a debate over a type of moving image.
What is a jiffy?
These two rivers are the locations for the Ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
(Half credit for one answer and must be pronounced correctly)
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
You need this large structure built by both groups either as a tomb or a temple for a god or figure. They really wanted to make a point with their power/influence over the masses
What is a pyramid?
This was the system of control for the government in the Indus River Valley Civilizations.
What is an oligarchy or rich families controlling the government?
Each of these groups became well renowned for their ability to know when to do certain religious rituals, and to do this what two technologies did they have to develop?
What is both counting and timekeeping/calendar systems?
This idiom is used to describe delaying a problem until a later date by physically assaulting this poor type container/receptacle down a deserted lane.
What is "kicking the can down the road?"
Of all the rivers mention over both Ancient Civilizations mini units, which SINGLE river in the world is responsible for the largest flooding disaster in human history?
What is the Yellow River?
This is the name for the worship of multiple gods. The Mesopotamians had over 10 and the Egyptians had over 200 major gods/goddesses.
What is the name for the location of the journey to the afterlife in Ancient Egyptian mythology?
What is polytheism and the Duat?
The practice of religious beliefs were very different between the two civilizations. The Shang practiced a mix of _____ and _______ where they could communicate with them through oracle bones. The Indus were much more ______ and did not seem to publicly practice religion
What is Animism and Ancestor worship?
What is personal?
The name for the Chavin is not actually the name for the people. This is still unknown till this day. The name Chavin comes from ________, the location of the remains of the city.
What is Chavin de Huantar?
This idiom is used to describe as an exchange of good byes between two similarly looking reptiles that has one live in the U.S., and the other lives in Africa, Asia, and Australia
What is "Later Gator and After while Crocodile?"