Greece
India
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Geography
Houser's Challenge
100

Greece lies on this Geographic feature that is surrounded by water on three sides.

What is a penisula?

100

India is one of these, a large landmass but smaller than a continent.

What is a subcontinent?

100
A product in Ancient China made from the cocoons of worms. It was very labor intensive and valuable, today remains a valuable textile.

What is Silk?

100

This is a 2-D representation of an area.

What is a map.

100

A testing strategy where you use the process of elimination to determine a "best guess." You also use things like logic, context clues, and reasoning to come up with one of these.

What is an Educated Guess?

200

Ancient Greece was divided up into these. Which are small independent political units.

What are City-States or Polises?

200

Name a river in India.

What is... (Brahmaputra, Indus, and Ganges)

200

This is the name for the trade route that connected Anceint China to the Medditeranian eventually spanning all the way to Rome.

What is the Silk Road?
200

This is part of a map that tells you things like scale and the symbols that are used and their meaning. 

A map legend. 

200

According to then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this day would live in infamy  

What is December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor?

300

He came from wealth and created one of the largest empires in the Ancient World. Known for spreading Greek influence into a conquered Persian Empire.

Who is Alexander the Great?

300

Name two mountain ranges in India.

What are.... (Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats)


300

This is the term used to describe a ruling family where leardership of the country is passed down within the family. The longest of these being the Zhou.

What is a dynasty?

300

Name a Country in Europe.

What is "insert counrty name here." 

300

This war was the world's first "total war", it was known as the war to end all wars.

What is World One?

400

Athens told him to drink the poison for corrupting the youth.

Who is Socrates?

400

Name a caste in the caste system.

What is Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, and Dalits = the Untouchables

400

Name the three major religions/philosophies of Ancient China.

What are Confucianiam, Daoism (Taoism), and Buddhism.

400

Name Three Countries in Asia.

What are "insert country names here"

400

A period of time in US history when there was a real fear of Communism, some believed there were communist spies in the highest levels of US government, this event inspired Hollywood and made Hollywood a suspected target of communist influence. 

What is the Red Scare?

500

Name a way Greek culture has diffused (spread/influenced) modern society.

What is democracy, government, architecture, philosphy, teaching, religious beliefs,....etc?

500

Describe the Hindu belief of reincarnation and how it relates to the caste system.  

Indians live(d) their lives according to the Dharma if they followed the rules they received good karma and had the opportunity to improve their status if they did not follow the rules they could receive bad karma and could potentially hurt their status.

500

The Great Wall of China was built to keep these nomadic warriors out. They were known for their skill in warfare and horseback riding. 

Who were the Mongols?

500

This term is used to describe these 5 major subjects in geography: location, place, movement, human land interactions, Regions.

What are the 5 pillars of geography?

500

This was the name given to four African American students who nonviolently protested against segration in the South by organizing sit-ins at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.

Who were the Greensboro Four?