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Before History
Agriculture
Mesopotamia
Egypt
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This is where cities first emerged out of agricultural villages and towns.
What are the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers/Mesopotamia?
100
This is the result of an agricultural surplus.
What is population growth?
100
He was possible the first tragic hero and a king of Uruk.
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
Egypt is on this continent?
What is Africa?
100
The author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
Who is George R.R. Martin?
200
The place where human evolution began.
What is Africa?
200
The agricultural transition did not lead to this development?
What is the invention of writing?
200
This type of writing was invented in about 3500 BCE.
What is cuneiform (wedge-shaped writing)?
200
This is the reason why Egypt existed and is a part of Herodotus' nickname for the region.
What is the Nile River (Gift of the Nile)?
200
She said "When you play the game of thrones, you live or you die".
Who is Cersei?
300
The most important characteristic of hominids that separates them from other animals?
What are their larger brains?
300
Cattle was domesticated in this region(s)?
What is Southwest Asia and Sudanic Africa?
300
Lex talionis is a Mesopotamian principle from this text and is translated thusly in English.
What is the "law of retaliation' in the Code of Hammurabi?
300
This king unified Egypt.
Who is Menes?
300
True or False: ShowSansa is better than BookSansa.
What is False. Both Sansas are awesome and if you think otherwise, your judgment is clouded by sexism and misogyny.
400
This neolithic site in Anatolia had the earliest evidence of specialization of labor.
What is Catal Huyuk?
400
The banana was domesticated in this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
400
This is the reason why ziggurats are historically significant.
What is as a characteristic of early complex/urbanized societies - monumental architecture?
400
The Egyptians believed this "person" was the very first king of Egypt whose burial serves as the model for Egyptian funerary rites.
Who is the god Osiris?
400
The show better give us this awesome character soon. She appears after her death in the third book.
Who is Lady Stoneheart?
500
What was lost by the agricultural transition?
What is relative gender equality?
500
The agricultural transition later led to the development of this type of society.
What are early complex societies/urbanized societies?
500
The reason why the gods act the way they did in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What is the unpredictability and sometimes catastrophic nature of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? (They have human-like emotions/behaviors.)
500
This king had about 100 children and outlived many of them.
Who is Rameses II?
500
"...there is only one thing we say to Death."
What is "not today"?