Geography
Mesopotamia
Egypt
100
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
What social units is Mesopotamia divided into?
What are Kings and Priests, Wealthy Merchants, Ordinary People, and Slaves?
100
What is Egyptian for god-king?
What is the Pharoah?
200
geographic feature that separates India from the rest of Asia?
What is the Himayala Mountains?
200
What did Sumerians build in order to honor their gods?
What is a ziggurat?
200
Name two interesting facts about the Nile River.
What is that it flows north and it is the longest river in the world?
300
Loess what is it and how is it different from Silt?
Loess is nutrient rich soil found around the Yellow River in China.
300
Who united the city-states into an empire and created harsh laws?
Who is Hammurabi?
300
When a king rules as a God and is center of religion, government and the army, what is the name of this type of rule?
What is a theocracy?
400
Why did civilizations arise around river valleys?
Good sources for food, water, and protection.
400
Who controlled much of the land in Sumer and how?
What are Priests and they controlled it by blessing farmers land in exhanged for crops or land.
400
How is the afterlife in Egypt different from Sumer’s?
What is that the Pharoahs were thought to live in their Pyramids after they had died, in Sumer they were thought to pass on to somewhere else.
500
Name all four natural barriers that isolates China.
What is the Gobi Desert, Pacific Ocean, Taklaman Desert, and Himalaya Mountains?
500
Name the mountain range that lies north of Mesopotamia?
What is the Zagros Mountains?
500
How far off is the Ancient Egyptian calendar from the calendar we use to today?
What is 6 hours?
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