Ancient Egypt
The river that gave life and supported the Egyptian economy
What is the River Nile?
The system of walls that connected to stop the Mongols invading China
What is the Great Wall of China?
The first country to be settled by the Vikings outside of Scandinavia
What is Iceland?
The person at the top of the social pyramid with a traditional role only
Who was the emperor?
The man who found the Americas
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The process used to preserve the dead
What is mummification?
The system of roads that connected China's economy to the European market
What is the Silk Road?
The three countries that form Scandinavia
What is Denmark, Norway and Sweden?
The last shogunate to rule over Japan
What is the Tokugawa shogunate?
Precious stone used to make knives for human sacrifices
What is obsidian?
The name of the jars that vital organs went into during mummification
What are canopic jars?
The people that were at the bottom of the social pyramid that formed the "Shang" class.
Who were the traders and merchants?
Day of the week named after Frigg
What is Friday?
Samurai without a master
Who are the Ronin?
Punishment for disobedient children.
Spiked with cactus spines, held over burning chillies or bound in a cold puddle of water
The valley where pharaohs were buried.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
These three belief systems were followed in Ancient China
What is Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism?
The mythical tree that is central to Norse cosmology, connecting the nine worlds
What is Yggdrasil?
The way of the warrior
The oldest of the three civilisations
Who were the Maya?
The archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered King Tut's tomb.
Who was Howard Carter?
The length of time it took to build the Great Wall of China
What is 2,000 years?
He discovered Greenland after being exiled for the second time
Who was Erik the Red?
The year of the Meiji restoration.
When is 1868?
The year Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue
When is 1492?