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What do we call early members of society that found food for survival?
What is Hunters & Gatherers
100

Longest river in the world used for transportation, trade, and agriculture

What is the Nile

100

The river in China that supported early civilizations and is called the Huang He in Chinese

What is the Yellow River

100

The form of government invented in Athens that focuses on giving power to the people 

What is direct democracy

100
Two mythological brothers raised by a She Wolf and responsible for naming Rome
Who is Romulus and Remus
200

What allowed early humans to settle and create villages?

What is agriculture?

200
Egyptian form of writing using symbols to represent things and ideas
What is Hieroglyphics
200

This is a strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer

What is a monsoon

200

The Greeks were forced to create _______-________ for government because of the mountainous terrain

What is a city-state 

200

This is the name of the river that is located in Rome

What is the Tiber River

300
What two important rivers from Mesopotamia flooded on a yearly basis
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
300

Major Egyptian structure that doubled as a tomb for a Pharaoh King

What is a Pyramid

300
Religion based on the spiritual teachings of Siddartha Guatama, that started in India and spread to Asia
What is Buddhism
300

Why did the Persian Wars begin?

What is Persia invaded Greece to expand their empire

300

The reason Rome's Republic had two consuls was because they wanted to have 

What is checks and balances

400

This was the name of the 1st writing system that was created in Mesopotamia. 

What is cuneiform?

400

Two significant rulers of Egypt that united the empire and expanded trade (Daily Double)

What is Queen Hatsheput and Ramses the Great

400
Chinese philosopher that focused on unifying Chinese society and preached family, societal, and government values.
Who is Confucius
400

This sea was used to trade and travel with other civilizations near Greece and Rome

What is the Mediterranean Sea

400

The type of government that we have today in the United States

What is a republic

500

First civilization from Mesopotamia that developed a writing system and the wheel

Who are the Sumerians

500

The group of people who lived south of Egypt in Nubia traded with Egypt HOW?

What is the Nile River

500
Major trade route in China that spread throughout the Asian continent
What is the Silk Road
500

This is the reason that Greece needed to establish colonies in other lands like Anatolia for agriculture

What is Greece did not have a lot of fertile farmland due to rocky terrain

500

Name 1 major invention or innovation from ancient Rome

What is roads, bridges, Pantheon, cement, aqueducts, Colosseum