Communication
Geography
Religion
Economy/
Culture (Social)
Government
100
What was the first form of writing called?
What is cuneiform?
100
What river flows through Egypt?
What is the Nile
100
Monotheism is defined as what?
What is the belief in one and only one god
100

What were the earliest economies based on?

What is trade?

100
What was the title of the leader of the Egyptian government?
A Pharaoh
200
What natural product did Mesopotamians write on?
What is clay?
200
What two rivers surrounded ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
_____________ is the belief in several gods.
What is polytheism
200

Who was at the top of the social pyramid in China?

Who was the Emperor?

200
Who was the creator of the first set of written laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who is King Hammurabi?
300
From what plant did the Egyptians make a type of paper product, called by the same name as the plant?
What is papyrus
300
Mesopotamia is also known the ________________ due its prime location between two rivers that created rich soil
What is "Fertile Crescent"
300
Ancient Egyptians buried their Pharaohs in tombs called _________________
What is pyramids
300

How did humans change from hunter-gatherers to living in permanent settlements?

They began farming and domesticating animals. (The Agricultural Revolution)

300
What two groups of people were the leaders of the Mesopotamian government?
Who are the Priests and Kings
400
What was the name of the form of writing invented by ancient Egyptians?
What is hieroglyphics?
400
Name three benefits that societies living in a river valley have over other civilizations?
What is trade, transportation, rich soil, various resources, food, water source, etc.
400

What is the world's oldest religion?

What is Hinduism?

400

Nearly every part of Roman culture was influenced by what other civilization?

Who is Greece or Who are the Greeks

400
What saying describes the type of punishments given in Hammurabi's Code?
What is "an eye for an eye"
500

What civilization used oracle bones to communicate with the gods and predict the future?

What is China

500

How did mountain ranges both 1. help and 2. hurt a civilization?

What are 1. defenses and water from the melting snow and 2. lack of trade  

500

What did Mesopotamia build to worship their gods?

What is ziggurats?

500

What is the acronym for the components of a civilization...AND...what does each letter stand for?


What is GPERSIA          G-geography, P-politics, E-economics, R-religion, S-social, I-intellectual/inventions, A-arts


500

We modeled our three branches of government after the Roman Empire. What were Rome's three branches of government?

What are the 1. Consuls, 2. Senate, 3. Assembly

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