Mesopotamia & Egypt
This area was known as the "land between two rivers" and was the "cradle of civilization."
What is MESOPOTAMIA?
This Chinese Emperor started off as a strict ruler, had a bureaucracy, and a army consisting of 630,000 men and 9000 elephants.
Who is Chandragupta Mauyra?
Sparta had this type of government, different from Athens' democracy, where a few people were in power.
What is oligarchy?
What two main commodities were traded in West Africa between the 8th century until the early 17th century.
What are gold and salt?
This group of people were a representative group of plebeians in the Roman Republic.
What/who was the Assembly?
This King from Mesopotamia created one of the first codes of law although many considered them harsh.
Who is HAMMURABI?
The followers of the Hindu religion regard this river to be the most sacred of all the rivers in India.
What is the Ganges River?
This group of people located on the island of Crete were well known for their Fresco paintings.
Who are the Minoans?
This is also called a floating garden, small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes.
What is a chinampa?
Two hundred years of Roman Peace that started with Octavian, 27 BCE, and concluded in 180 CE with the death of Marcus Aurelius.
What is Pax Romana?
This patriarch left the city-state of UR to go to the land of Canaan as Jehovah had commanded him
Who is Abraham?
These are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism and are written in Sanskrit beginning about 1500 BCE.
What are the Vedas?
This Greek philosopher argued that a philosopher should be king, wrote "The Republic" & "Allegory of the Cave" and was a student of Socrates.
Who is Plato?
Most of the MesoAmerica civilizations were affected by disease such as smallpox which led to their demise. However, one society no one is really knows for sure. It is possible they were invaded or experienced extreme famine.
Who were the Maya?
This group was elected to protect the interests of the Plebeians.
What is the Tribune?
This Egyptian Pharaoh had the second longest reign in Egyptian History. He was also known as the greatest builder of Egypt.
Who was Ramses II or Ramses the Great?
The longest River in China and Asia, it is also the most important River to the Chinese because it is the country's principal waterway.
What is the Yangtze River?
This philosopher would be poisoned to death because he taught the youth of Athens to question everything.
Who is Socrates?
This best describes the religions of the Aztecs, Mayas, and the Incas.
What is Polytheism?
These were known as "uncivilized" persons who fought against the Roman Empire. Many were recruited to fight the Romans by Hannibal of Carthage.
Who are barbarians?
What was known as the very first "City-State" in Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer?
This group of people is at the top of the Hindu Caste system in India.
Who are the Brahamins?
Final Jeopardy Question: This Chinese Dynasty was the first to leave written records of Chinese History and lasted from 1700-1046 BCE.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
This African society was based on farming but also traded gold and ivory.
What was Zimbabwe?
The waters of this river in Italy were not potable. So, the Romans had to get their drinking water from wells and eventually aqueducts that carried pure water from the hills and mountains far from Rome.
What is the Tiber?