Mesopotamia
Egypt
Egypt's Neighbors
Literature
Grab Bag
100
Name the two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent
What is Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
This is the city where the largest pyramid and Great Sphinx can be found.
What is Giza?
100
Queen Hatshepsut's expedition brought back luxurious items from this mysterious land.
What is the land of Punt?
100
The Oldest Written story
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh
100
This Egyptian pharaoh tried to make everyone believe in only one particular god.
Who is Akhenaten?
200
Name the leader famous for the first written code of law
Who is Hammurabi
200
This object is the oldest recorded depiction of the unification of Egypt.
What is the Narmer Palette?
200
In this ancient civilization, the tomb of Terracotta warriors was found.
What is ancient China?
200
This story takes place in Thebes during the New Kingdom.
What is The Golden Goblet?
200
Belief in one god is called this, and belief in many gods is called this.
What is monotheism and polytheism?
300
What is the first form of writing called?
What is cuneiform
300
The Great Sphinx is supposedly a depiction of this pharaoh's face.
Who is King Khafre?
300
These are two famous ancient cities from the Indus River Valley.
What are Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro?
300
Part of the Epic of Gilgamesh takes place in this capital city of Sumer.
What is Ur?
300
These invaders from Canaan ruled in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period and fought the Thebans because of conflicting beliefs about gods.
Who are the Hyksos?
400
What is another name for a "step-pyramid" ?
What is a ziggurat
400
These are the three kinds of writing carved into the Rosetta Stone.
What are hieroglyphics, demotic/coptic, and Greek?
400
These people were known for "jumping the bull" in a land north of Egypt.
Who are the Minoans?
400
This character is the antagonist in The Golden Goblet.
Who is Gebu?
400
Natron was a mixture used in mummification. It was made of these two substances, which can be found naturally in some places of the desert.
What is salt and baking soda?
500
This is the stone object that Hammurabi used to carve his laws on.
What is a stele
500
This is the kingdom in which Akhenaten, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III reigned.
What is the New Kingdom?
500
This ancient Greek civilization was part of a legendary war against the Trojans that lasted ten years.
What is the Mycenaean civilization?
500
This part of a story ties up the loose ends after the climax?
What is the denouement?
500
This pharaoh of Egypt tried to erase all evidence of Queen Hatshepsut after her death.
Who is Thutmose III?
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