Egyptians
Mesopotamia
Far East (India & China)
Jewish People & Africa
Greeks
100

The name of the river that runs south to north in Egypt.  

What is the Nile River?

100

This is the writing form developed by the Sumerians. 

What is cuneiform?

100

The term citadel refers to this structure. 

What is a stronghold in the center of the city?

100

This is the article of clothing that Jacob gave his son Joseph.

What is a coat of many colors?

100

The mythical Minotaur was this type of creature.

What is half-man and half-bull?

200

The name of the continent that Egypt is located in.

What is Africa?

200

This is a famous set of fair laws (code) that were carved on stone monuments throughout Babylon. 

What is the code of Hammurabi?
200
This is the name of the river in India that was crucial for early cities. 

What is the Indus River?

200

This is the name of the city that Abram (Abraham) and his family originated from. 

What is Ur?

200

Minoans were known for performing this sport to honor their gods.

What is bull-jumping?

300

True or False. Egyptians were polytheists.

True

300

The term Mesopotamia means this phrase.

What is "between two rivers?"

300

Name one of the 2 rivers that ancient chinese settled between.

What is the Yellow River or the Yangtee River?

300

This is the name of the large desert is Africa that was once home to a vibrant, lush civilization.

What is the Sahara Desert?

300

The people who came from Greece to conquer Crete. 

What are the Mycenaeans?

400

Early Egyptian writing was called. 

Hieroglyphics.

400

The name of the empire that was built by Sargon.

What is Akkadia or the Akkadian Empire?

400

Empress Lei Zu is famous for discovering a way to manufacture this textile (cloth).

What is silk?

400

The tales of Anansi are about this type of creature. 

What is a spider?

400

Barbarians had this superior type of metal and used weapons fashioned of it to conquer the Mycenaean Greek.

What is Iron?

500

This is the name of the process that Egyptian priests performed to preserve a dead body before burial.

Embalming or mummification.

500

Shamshi-Adad was a known as the King of the Whole World and ruled with an iron first over this empire.

What is the Assyrian Empire?

500

This early style of chinese writing resembles small pictures of the words they represent.

What is pictograms?

500

King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon condemned these 3 Jewish men to be thrown into a fiery furnace.

What is Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?

500

The term the "Dark Ages" means the civilization lacked what skill set. 

What is writing?