Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics/Economics
Social/Cultural
100
The Mesopotamian civilization rose up between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
What is the opposite of monotheistic?
What is polytheistic?
100
What was the final resting place of King Khufu?
Great Pyramid of Giza
100
This position was the highest government official, serving as the pharaoh's chief advisor and carrying out their commands. Ask Joseph in Genesis.
What is a vizier?
100
These nomadic pastoralists of North Africa raised livestock for grazing, primarily camels, goats, and sheep.
Who are Bedouins?
200
Egypt believed that this river is the source of life.
What is the Nile?
200
In ancient Egypt, the heart was weighed against what to determine if a person would be allowed into the afterlife?
200
From Mohenjo Daro, archaeologists have discovered that the Harappan society valued hygiene, as evidenced by indoor toilets and the largest public what?
What is public bath?
200
This Mesopotamian king created a code of behavior?
Who is Hammurabi?
200
This is the oldest known culture from the Indus Valley Civilization.
Who are the Harappans?
300
This river was critical to the development of civilization in Ancient China.
What is the Yellow River?
300
In Mesopotamia, each god or goddess was responsible for a specific aspect of _____ , such as fresh water, healing, or farming.
What is nature?
300
Siddhartha Gautama is better known by this religious title.
What is Buddha?
300
This Egyptian Queen ruled as a king and led a famous expedition to Punt (shopping trip).
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
This group of people are at the very bottom of the Hindu caste system.
400
This site in England is made up of 83 stones, including 40 sarsens and 43 bluestones.
What is Stonehenge?
400
These structures were believed to connect the human world to the heavens and were used as a place of worship.
What is a ziggurat?
400
India was reunited following civil wars and foreign invasion by this dynasty of rulers.
Who are the Guptas?
400
Mesopotamia exported lumber, gold, ivory, pearls, silver, and this blue stone that lined the sarcophagus of King Tut.
What is lapis lazuli?
400
These important members of African society were oral historians, storytellers, and keepers of cultural knowledge.
What are griots?
500
This civilization counted on the consistent yearly flood to provide good soil for food.
What is Egypt?
500
When God confirmed his covenant with Abram, this was the confirmatory sign of the covenant.
What is male circumcision?
500
Technology under this Chinese dynasty produced the invention of paper, the use of water clocks and sundials, and the development of a seismograph
What is the Han Dynasty?
500
This was the idea that only one legitimate ruler of China could exist at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
500
In ancient Egyptian society, this person occupied the highest position in the social hierarchy, considered a living god with absolute power.
Who is Pharaoah?