SUMERIA
EGYPT
MINOANS
BUOYANCY
MATHS
100
Even kings listened to this group of people.
What are priests?
100
This was the sun god of ancient Egypt.
Who is Ra?
100
This word means "huge stone" and refers to the building style of ancient Crete.
What is Megalithic?
100
You drop an object into a full container of fluid. One cup of fluid spills over. One cup is a measure of the object's _____________.
What is displacement?
100
1/5 divided by 8
1/40
200
This was a common way for a married man to get out of debt.
What is selling his wife into slavery?
200
Pharaoh was believed to be the incarnation of this falcon-headed god.
Who is Horus?
200
Even Egypt recognized the Minoans as being experts at this.
What is shipbuilding and navigation?
200
An object floats when the weight of the fluid it displaces is ____________________ than the weight of the object.
What is "greater than"?
200
1/4 divided by 3/8. Please answer in simplest form.
2/3
300
This is the name of the Wild Man of the Legend of Gilgamesh.
What is Enkiddu?
300
This was the king of the gods.
Who is Amun?
300
Thera was one of these.
What is a volcano?
300
This is the Greek who discovered the principle of displacement.
Who is Archimedes?
300
3/16 divided by 4/12. Please answer in simplest form.
9/16
400
This is the name for the pyramid-shaped buildings Sumerians used as temples.
What are ziggurats?
400
This was the title of the most powerful man in Egypt besides the Pharaoh.
What is Vizier?
400
Ancient Minoans highly prized these two qualities.
What are beauty and fitness?
400
Archimedes figured out the principle of displacement when trying to figure out how to determine the gold content of this object.
What is a crown?
400
Don has a piece of licorice 40 feet long. He cuts it into 3-inch pieces. How many pieces does he have?
160
500
This term meant "big man" in ancient Sumeria.
What is Lugal?
500
Canopic Jars were used to contain these.
What are the organs of mummies?
500
This young man flew too close to the sun and therefore died.
Who is Icarus?
500
This is the name for the panels that make up the envelope of a balloon.
What are gores?
500
Timothy has 1/4 of a pie. He divides it evenly among 12 students. What fraction of a whole pie does each student get?
1/48
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