India & Africa
The dessert in Northern Africa that was once believed to be grassland.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The highly valued discovery of Lei Zu.
What is silk?
Name of the important river in Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
Though Ashurbanipal is known as a cruel and ruthless dictator, he is also remembered as the king who collected thousands of clay cuneiform tablets and built the world’s first _ to store them in.
What is library?
The civilization that enslaved the Israelites because they feared they were too numerous and/or might attack them.
What is Egypt?
Who is Anansi the Spider?
The crop the wet climate of China allows farmers to grow.
What is rice?
The name of the time period during New Kingdom of Egypt that was more rich and powerful than Egypt.
What is the Golden Age of Egypt?
What rivers was the Assyrian empire close to in Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Phoenicians were greatest in the ancient world at these two things.
What are sailors and traders?
The word for a lesson about right or wrong included in many African stories.
What is a moral?
Amenhotep (Akhenaten) decided that none of the gods of Egypt were real, except for one, whom he named Aten. He was the first pharaoh to practice this.
What is monotheism?
What powerful city did the Assyrians conquer using flooding?
What is Babylon? (Double Jepordy)
The name of monotheist that the Israelites descended from.
Who is Abraham?
The name of the valley the people of ancient India lived in.
What is the Indus River Valley?
The name of the emperor of China that united all the villages into the first empire.
Who is Huang Di? (Double Jeopardy)
The first female pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The weapons that made the Assyrians almost impossible to defeat.
What are siege engines or battering rams?
The Phoenician city famous for making purple dye.
What is Tyre? (Double Jeopardy)
The biggest city in ancient India.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
The names of the two main rivers that civilizations grew up next to in China.
In the Middle Kingdom, Egypt conquered Nubia (Kush). Egypt was, in turn, conquered by this tribe.
What is the Hyksos Tribe?
The name of the most powerful king of Assyria.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
The name of the snails the Phoenicians made purple dye from.