Geography
Religion
Achievements/
Contributions
Politics and Economics
Social Classes
100
Early civilizations settled near rivers for these reasons.
What is farming, travel, and trade?
100
The belief in many gods/ (*Hint the Egyptians, Sumerians, and the Hindus are all this.)
What is polytheistic?
100
This civilization gave us paper, steel, the saddle and stirrup as well as gun powder.
What was Ancient China?
100
A government ruled by a king and/or queen.
What is a monarchy?
100
The system in India (still in use today). The Hindus believe that your social class is based on your karma in a past life.
What is the caste system?
200
The rivers provided THIS and water for these civilizations. It provided great land for agriculture!
What is fertile soil?
200
The Sumerians had these temples in the center of their city-states.
What are ziggurats?
200
This civilization contributed to the world; the concept of zero, planned cities and streets, as well as carved seals and precious stones.
What was the Indus River Valley?
200
This Chinese Emperor centralized the government of China and came up with a common coined money system for his whole empire.
Who was Qin Shihangdi?
200
At the bottom of the Egyptian social class pyramids.
What were slaves?
300
The two rivers of Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq).
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
300
************Daily Double************** The TWO religions practiced (and still practiced today) in India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
300
This river valley civilizations contributed black ink, 365 day calendar and Leap Year.
What was the Ancient Egyptian civilization?
300
Mesopotamia had these. They were the foundation of their government, with an urban city area inside the walls, and small farms outside the walls.
What is a city-state?
300
************Double Jeopardy************* The 3 social classes of Ancient China.
What were the aristocrats, farmers, and merchants?
400
**************Daily Double************ Although all of the river valleys flooded, this river in China has an unpredictable flood. It is also known as the River of Sorrows and the Yellow River. (Yes you must know the Chinese name.)
What is the Haung He River?
400
The ancient Chinese belief that the king had the right from the gods to rule.
What was the Mandate of Heaven?
400
The Sumerians, the world's first civilization (Sumer), gave the world navigation by the stars, the world's first known writing (cuneiform), and this invention that we still use today. *Hint: How did you get to school today?*
What is the wheel?
400
The name of the rulers of Egypt.
What were pharaohs?
400
The lowest caste in India.
What are the Pariahs or the Untouchables?
500
The name of the rivers in India AND which river in Egypt had the easy transportation and gentle floods.
What are the Indus ,Ganges rivers and the Nile?
500
************Triple Jeopardy************* Ancient Egyptian god of mummification and embalming.
Who was Anubis?
500
*******Quadruple Jeopardy 2000 points************ Name all four writing systems of all of the River Valley civilizations.
What are cuneiform, hieroglyphics, pictographs & ideographs, and (Indus) not yet deciphered?
500
************Triple Jeopardy********** Five trade items of the Indus River Valley.
What were terracotta pots, beads, gold and silver, colored gem stones such as turquoise and lapis lazuli, metals, flints (for making stone tools), seashells and pearls?
500
The first emperor. He was Akkadian and took Mesopotamia.
Who was King Sargon?
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