Origins of Civ.
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus River (India)
China
100

A complex culture with a large number of people who share common elements.

What is CIVILIZATION? 

100

Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.

What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers? 

100

The complex form of writing developed by the Egyptians

What are hieroglyphics?

100

Social structure developed in India

What is the Caste System?

100

A Chinese invention that allowed for writing and record keeping to be easier

What is paper? 

200

How humans USED to obtain their food before farming.

What is hunting and gathering? 

200

This leader of Babylon created the first set of recorded laws.

Who was Hammurabi? 

200

The simpler form of writing developed by the Egyptians

What is the hieratic system?

200

Early Indian civilizations developed around these two rivers valleys

What are the Indus and the Ganges?

200

A picture or drawing representing words or ideas

What is a Pictograph?

300

The Six Characteristics of Civilization

What is? 
Cities
Religion
Social Classes
Writing
Art
Government 

300

A government guided by divine authority and religion. 

What is a theocracy? 

300

The purpose of building the pyramids.

What is to honor their dead pharaohs?

300

Writing system developed by the Aryans

What is Sanskrit?

300

A government led by the richest and most powerful people in society. 

What is Aristocracy? 

400

This is the shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture

What was the Neolithic (Farming) Revolution? 

400

An invention of the Mesopotamians.

What are:

  • Wagon Wheel

  • Potter’s wheel

  • Sundial

  • Bronze

  • Geometry

  • Astronomy

  • Hour = 60 minutes

400
The major city of ancient Egypt, now known as Cairo

What is Giza? 

400

The Hindu holy text

What is the Vedas? 

400

The two rivers most important to the development of China

What are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers? 

500
Increased food allowed for this to happen

What is job specialization? 

500

The ____________invented this wedge-shaped system of writing called __________________

Who are the Sumerians? And what is Cuneiform? 

500

BONUS DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This was the pharaoh who the Great Pyramid of Giza was built for. 

Who is KHUFU?

500

The castes of the caste system

What are the:
-Brahmans
-Kshatriyas
-Vaisyas
-Sudras
-BONUS: Untouchables (Dalits)

500

Ancient Chinese emphasized the worship of this group of people. 

Who are their ancestors?