Mesopotamia
Egypt
Iowa
Living on One Dollar
Potpourri
100
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
100
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Continent E (Africa)?
100
This is Iowa's nickname.
What is The Hawkeye State?
100
This continent was home to the ancient Mayans. (D)
What is current Central/South America?
100
This sporting event still exists today and is a contribution from ancient Greece.
What are the Olympics?
200
This made Mesopotamia a good place for growing crops.
What is the rivers flooded and deposited rich soil?
200
He is known as "the boy king."
Who is King Tut?
200
These are the two navigable rivers that border the state of Iowa.
What are the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers?
200
As early as 1500 BC the Maya had settled in villages and had developed an agriculture based on the cultivation of a vegetable they called maize.
What is corn?
200
This characteristic of a civilization made sure people had enough food to eat so they could stay in one place.
What is a stable food supply?
300
This king created a set of laws to establish order.
Who was Hammurabi?
300
What mathematical accomplishments of ancient Egypt are still in use worldwide today? In 7th or 8th grade you will study ____.
What is Geometry?
300
This president was born here.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
300
This happened to Chris after he drank the water in Pena Blanca.
What is Giradiha?
300
He is a sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
400
Mesopotamia was located in this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
400
Ancient Egyptians created a formal writing system used; The Rosetta Stone discovery shows us today was ancient ____ were like.
What are heiroglyphics?
400
The amount of states that border Iowa.
What are 6 states? (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota)
400
These are the three main food items they eat in Pena Blanca.
What are bananas, rice, and beans?
400
She was the Queen of Egypt and wife of Julius Caesar.
Who was Cleopatra?
500
Mesopotamians were innovative people. One of the most important inventions they created helped transport items. We still use it to this day.
What is the wheel?
500
Egyptian citizens, including farmers and other laborers, built these magnificent structures that still stand today as tombs for pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
500
This northeastern town is internationally known for its elaborate homage to Norwegian heritage, known as Nordic Fest.
What is Decorah?
500
This is how many people in the world live on one dollar a day.
What is 1.1 billion?
500
This theme of geography shows how people, ideas, things, and communication travel from place to place.
What is movement?