Global History Review

Social Scientist/ River Valley Civilizations

100

I am the social scientist who digs up/ excavates artifacts in order to interpret life in the past

What is an archeologist

200

I am the River Valley Civilization where hieroglyphics, papyrus, polytheism and the Nile River Flow

What is Ancient Egypt

300

I am the river the early Chinese civilizations thrived on.

What is the Yellow River (Huang He)

400

I am the River Valley Civilization that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow through. This area is also called the Fertile Crescent.

What is Mesopotamia?

500

I am the river Valley Civilization where later the Gupta Empire would thrive.

What is the Indus in India

Belief Systems/Classical Civilizations

100

I am the belief in one god

What is monotheism?

200

I am the belief system that encourages followers to fast, pray five times and day and not eat pork.

What is Islam

300

I am the Belief System that believes that life is about suffering and to end all suffering one must follow the eight fold path.

What is Buddhism

400

I am the type of government created by ancient Greece allowing people the right to vote

What is a democracy?

500

I am a Classical Civilization, I am the Civilization that gives the concept of zero and the decimal system and Sanskrit.

What is the Gupta civilization in India?

Golden Age Civilizations/Middle Ages

100

I am a Country known for the creation of porcelain, the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, usage of the silk roads, Confucianism and, the wheel.

What is China?

200

I am the civilization that gave you Justinian's Code and Cyrillic Alphabet.

What is the Byzantine Empire?

300

I am the social system created to stop invaders from terrorizing Europe which had kings, knights, and lords. 

What is feudalism?

400

I am Songhai, Mali, Ghana and we traded salt for gold along the Sahara desert to become wealthy what are we?

What are West African Kingdoms

500

I am the spreading of culture, like languages, foods, technology throughout civilizations as people travel. What is the term associated with me?

What is cultural diffusion

Crusades/Plague/ Later Europe

100

I am the name of the disease that is also known as the black death.

What is the Bubonic Plague

200

I am the group of people who reopened the silk roads through my conquests of Russia, China and the Middle East

Who are the Mongols?

300

I am the Holy City people fought the Crusades over.

What is the city of Jerusalem ?

400

I am the guy who came from mainland Europe and took over England.

Who is William the Conquerer? 

500

I am a group of raiders and invaders who terrorized Europe in the 800s and 900s, eventually decided that central Europe was a great place to live, married local lords and converted to Christianity.

Who are the Vikings?

Misc

100

I am the empire in Mesopotamia that created handing gardens, the Ishtar gate and was a great center of culture and learning/

What is the Babylonian Empire?

200

I am the richest man of all time, who was a Muslim from West Africa.

Who is Mansa Musa?

300

I am a set of laws that says if you disrespect your father you hand will get chopped off.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

400

I am the geographic feature that made cultural diffusion difficult, or hindered between China and India.

What is the Himalaya Mountains?

500

I am a geographical feature that hindered cultural diffusion in Greece, thus creating independent city states

What are mountains?