Down By the River
This river starts with a "T" and supplied water to Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
This is the way people are ranked in society.
What is social hierarchy?
The largest continent.
What is Asia?
The practice of farming.
What is agriculture?
There are more than 700 known species of this extinct reptile.
What are dinosaurs?
This river starts with an "E" and also supplied water to Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
Mesopotamian, Indian, and Egyptian religion all had one big thing in common. They all believed in more than one god/goddess, which means they were this.
What is polytheistic?
Egyptian civilization was located on this continent.
What is Africa?
The process of modifying plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.
What is domestication?
This animated movie from Disney encourages us to "Let It Go."
What is Frozen?
This river supplied water to the Indus River Valley.
What is the Indus River?
Cuneiform and hieroglyphics are both examples of this.
What is a written language?
This is the largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This technique was used to prevent floods and redistribute water to areas that needed it, using canals and gates.
What is irrigation?
This is the city that has the highest population (the most people living in it) in the United States.
What is New York City?
This river is known for its papyrus plants, which allowed ancient Egyptians to create the first form of paper.
What is the Nile River?
This is a person or group of people that makes decisions for a civilization.
What is a government?
This is the only continent that is also a country.
What is Australia?
Successful farming led to this, also known as extra food.
What is a food surplus?
Name one of either Ms. Rickey's or Mrs. Courtwright's dogs.
Possible answers: Clover, Ollie, Violet, or Sunny.
Rivers supplied this type of soil to ancient civilizations, which allowed them to farm successfully.
What is fertile soil?
Irrigation, the wheel, the pyramids, and paper are both examples of this, intended to make life a little easier.
What is technology?
This region of the world is home to Mesopotamia, one of the first civilizations.
What is the Middle East?
This was the first written set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This Percy Jackson hero is known for his ability to train heroes.