Name the two rivers that flow through the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates.
100
This organ was thought to be unimportant and so was discarded during the mummification process.
What is the brain?
100
The Minoans practiced this dangerous custom.
What is bull jumping?
100
Mesopotamia's goddess of love.
Who is Ishtar?
100
The study of the physical remains of people who lived long ago, including their architecture, art, objects of daily life, trash and food.
What is ARCHEOLOGY
200
An ancient Mesopotamian writing system developed in 3000BCE. A stylus was pressed into soft clay to produce wedge shaped impressions known as pictograms.
What is CUNEIFORM.
200
This Egyptian city is where all the pyramids were built.
What is MEMPHIS?
200
This warrior society conquered the Minoans living on Crete.
What is THE MYCENAEANS?
200
Egyptian god of mummification.
Who is Anubis?
200
X is significant because it is home to the world's first civilization.
What is MESOPOTAMIA
300
Considered the father of the Jewish culture, THIS MAN was given a sacred covenant with God. (The covenant promised that his descendants would be numerous and form a nation of God's chosen people.)
Who is ABRAHAM?
300
This object is the oldest recorded depiction of the unification of Egypt.
What is THE NARMER PALETTE?
300
This civilization was known for its organized cities that had well - laid out roads, neat brick buildings, wells, and a sewage system.
What is THE INDUS VALLEY?
300
When Hathor was a gigantic lioness sent to devour all mankind, she went by this name.
What is SEKHMET?
300
The world's earliest monotheistic religion.
What is JUDAISM?
400
Small molded pieces of clay with unique colors, shapes, and markings, were used to keep track of various goods.
What are accounting tokens?
400
This is the kingdom in which Akhenaten, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III reigned.
What is THE NEW KINGDOM?
400
China's first emperor, his tomb is an underground replica of his capital city and includes trees made of jade, rivers of mercury, and thousands of life-sized terra-cotta soldiers.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
400
This lovable dwarf god was a favorite among Egyptian households.
Who is BES?
400
The ruler of Babylon from 1792 - 1750BCE. He is known for writing one of the world's first set of laws.
Who is HAMMURABI?
500
The four civilizations of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria?
500
These are the three kinds of writing carved into the Rosetta Stone.
What are hieroglyphics, demotic/coptic, and Greek?
500
These foreigners settled in the Nile Delta and adopted Egyptian customs. They brought to Egypt with them the chariot, apples, and the loom.
What is THE HYKSOS?
500
In Mesopotamian religion he is known as Shamash. In Egyptian religion he is known as X.
Who is RA? (ATEN is also acceptable).
500
X is significant because he is regarded as the first person in recorded history to create a multiethnic, centrally ruled empire.