Early Man
time before recorded history
What is Prehistory?
land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The river which Egyptian civilization depended on
What was the Nile?
This man led the Hebrews out of Egypt
Who was Moses?
With one serpent, the rod os asclepius can be confused with the caduceus, a twin-serpent symbol of peace and herding belonging to this messenger of Greece
Who was Hermes?
This adjective means to live a very simple life and comes from a city-state in ancient Greece...
What is spartan?
This is the greek word for people who are non-greeks
What is barbarians?
REAL JEOPARDY ?
This nymph was punished by Hera to only repeat what she heard
Who was Echo?
a first hand account of an event
What is a primary source?
the two rivers that border Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Tensions exist between Egypt and the British museum over the return of this incredibly important artifact that was taken from Egypt during a war in 1801...
What was the Rosetta Stone?
The Pharaoh during the time of Moses...
Who was Rameses?
In Egyptian mythology, this god's eye was gouged out in a battle with Set. This symbol protected the Egyptians from evil and was called the...
What was the Wadjet Eye or Eye of Horus?
Ancient Greeks actually called their country _____, but the ________ later called their country Greece.
What was Hellas and Romans?
his name means surrounded by glory
who is Pericles?
Real Jeopardy ?
Actaeon pays a "deer" price for spying on this twin sister of Apollo while bathing
Who is Artemis
object which tells of the past
What is an artifact?
the world's first civilization
What is Sumer?
This kept order among the people in Egypt and allowed for its empire to last for over 3,000 years...
What is the social pyramid, social structure, or class system?
The ancient name of the Hebrews' Promised Land, nicknamed the land of milk and honey...
What is Canaan?
The dead Egyptian God, King of the Dead
Who was Osiris?
Leonidas was the Spartan king who fought the Persians in the pass of Thermopylae. This famous battle has been nicknamed, the ...
What is the Battle of 300?
this word means someone who loves to think
what is philosopher?
Real Jeopardy ?
Antonio Carava made a famous Greek sculpture of this Greek hero, sword in one hand and gorgon head in the other.
Who was Perseus?
a lifestyle where the people were nomadic because they had to follow their food
What is hunter-gatherer?
Mesopotamian places of worship were like pyramids with stairs. These buildings were called...
What are ziggurats?
Legend says that Pharaoh Psamtik III sacrificed his kingdom rather than fight when his enemies brought these sacred animals, called maus, into battle ...
What are cats?
Who was the Father of the Hebrews, whose name means the Father of Many...
Who was Abraham?
In the Egyptian creation myth, civilization rises up from the waters of Nun and comes out of this sacred Egyptian flower...
What is the lotus waterlilly?
The Battle of Salamis was the turning point of the war between Greece and Persia. Where was this battle fought?
What is on the sea or in the Strait of Salamis?
this word for self-love comes from a character in Greek mythology
What is narcissism?
Real Jeopardy ?
This Greek god of wine couldn't always jold his wine--Rhea gave him an amethyst to keep him from getting too drunk
Who is Dionysus?
People who study about human evolution are not called archeologists but...
What are anthropologists?
Mesopotamians constructed their buildings, homes and walls out of this material (2 words)
What is mud-brick?
What city location of the 3 most famous pyramids, including the Great Pyramid...
Where is Giza?
It took Moses this duration of time to get the hebrews from Egypt back to the promise land...
(answer: number and time label)
What is 40 years?
The Egyptian falcon god, becomes living king on earth when his father "dies"...
Who was Horus?
Plato wrote about the trial of this famous Greek philosopher who was convicted of "corrupting the young" because he taught them to think and question the world around them...
Who was Socrates?
ACTUAL JEOPARDY ?
This main ingredient in the writing part of a pencil comes from the Greek word meaning "to write"
what is graphite?
Second Epic poem written by Homer
What was the Odyssey?
the supply of water to land or crops to help growth
What is irrigation?
What civilization developed the earliest form of written language?
What is Sumer?
Northern neighbor of the Egyptians that introduced iron weapons to them...
Who were the Hittites?
first five books of the Old Testament, the name of the Hebrew Bible...
What is the Torah?
Egyptian goddess for truth and justice...
What is Ma'at?
According to Herodotus, a messenger ran from this plain after the battle to tell the Athenians that they had beat the Persians.
What is the battle called and what does the runner yell when he gets to Athens?
What was the battle of Marathon and NIKE?
the english word for paper comes from this Egyptian word for the same thing
what is papyrus?
Laocoon, a priest of Apollo, meant this object when said, "I fear the Greeks, especially when they bring gifts."
What is a horse? or the Trojan horse?
This discovery ended the nomadic lifestyle and was arguably the spark that started civilization
What is farming or agriculture?
This ruler imposed a new law code based off of a basic principal "eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth"
Who was Hammurabi?
Once part of Thebes, this valley was the burial site of many Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties
What is the Valley of the kings?
The Ten Commandments were kept in this special container...
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
Egyptian sun god,
king of the gods
Who was Amun Ra/Ra
REAL JEOPARDY ?
This tippy-top area of Athens employed wells and cisterns
What is the Acropolis?
this word comes from a Greek who was eternally teased
What is tantalize
REAL JEOPARDY ?
Italy's 10 cent coin has a detail from Boticelli's "The Birth of" her
Who is Venus?
The scientific name for cavemen...
What is hominids?
This ruler of the Babylonian empire was given credit for building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world) for his wife as a gift, also Kanye West is making an Opera titled after him
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar?
Also known as Amenhotep the IV, this pharaoh changed Egypt's religion, which proved unpopular and only lasted until the next pharaoh took power. How did Amenhotep change Egyptian religion?
What is changing from polytheistic to monotheistic?
If you visit Egypt, go to a bird garden to see the national bird, a rosefinch named for its habitat on this biblical peak. (where did Moses receive the Ten Commandments)...
what is Mt. Sinai?
Rubens painted several versions of "The Judgement of" him. Zeus chose this mortal to choose which of the 3 goddesses was "the fairest" because he was famous for his judgment. This caused to the...
Who is Paris and the Trojan?
This civilization was discovered by Schliemann and Evans
What is Minoan Crete/Mycenae?
this word means wedge shaped in ancient Sumerian
what is cuneiform?
REAL JEOPARDY ?
A famous and tragic character in Greek folklore, Oedipus solves the riddle of this Egyptian based monster
What is the sphinx?
Cavemen lived during a time called the Stone Age. This time period ended with the invention of...
What is metal tools?
If the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were still around today you would travel to this modern day country to visit them...
What is Iraq?
It looks suspicious that the next pharaoh became pharaoh upon the mysterious death of this teenage monarch...
Who was King Tut?
son of Abraham who was almost sacrificed
Who is Isaac?
This ancient EPIC poem contains fights between Menelaus and Paris as well as Achilles and Hector; it is the first poem written by Homer...
What is the Iliad?
REAL JEOPARDY ?
You could call Cyrus the younger, son of Darius II by this title, also the name of a popular video game series.
What is Xerxes?
Akkadian ruler who changed his name to "true king" and everyone was like "Okay, that sounds good!"
Who was Sargon of Akkad?
REAL JEOPARDY ?
After her marriage to Jason goes south, this sorceress weds King Aegeus of Athens
Who was Madea?