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100
Two important rivers from Mesopotamia that flooded on a yearly basis.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
Longest river in the world the flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
100
The early river systems located in northern India. (Daily Double)
What are the Indus and the Ganges rivers?
100
The early river systems of China that supported early civilizations. (Daily Double)
What are the Huang and Chang rivers? Yellow and Yangtze are also acceptable.
100
Ocean that is located west of Northern and Southern America, east of Asia and Australia, and north of Antarctica.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Ancient Hebrew laws.
What are the Torah (first five books of the Bible) or the Ten Commandments?
200
Egyptian form of writing using symbols to represent things and ideas.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The division of Indian society based on wealth, rank and occupation.
What is the caste system?
200
Chinese philosopher that focused on unifying Chinese society and preached family, societal, and government values.
Who is Confucius?
200
Line at zero degrees latitude that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
300
Three world monastic religions that started in the Fertile Crescent.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
300
Major Egyptian building that doubled as a grave for a pharaoh or king.
What is a pyramid?
300
Two world religions that began in ancient India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
300
Major trade route in China that spread throughout the Asian continent.
What is the Silk Road?
300
Line that is measured at zero degrees longitude and divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Set of ancient civil laws in Mesopotamia that were an eye for an eye justice system.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
Two significant rulers of Egypt that united the Upper and Lower Egypt and expanded trade. (Daily Double)
Who are Menes and Queen Hatshepsut?
400
He converted to Buddhism after the Battle of Kalinga.
Who is Asoka?
400
Structure built to keep invaders out of Northern China.
What is the Great Wall of China?
400
Line of latitude that is 66.5 degrees south of the Equator.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
500
The best sailors.
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
Two examples of architecture in ancient Egypt.
What are ziggurats, pyramids, and temples?
500
The founder of the Maurya Empire.
Who is Chandragupta?
500
Sign that a good ruler had the approval of the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
500
Contains most of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and their waters
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?