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100
The number of countries in NAME
What is 23?
100
This controlled daily life in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
The Greek meaning of the word Mesopotamia.
What is "the land between two rivers"?
100
The oldest major religion in that started in NAME.
What is Judaism?
100
The bodies of water connected by the Suez Canal.
What are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The largest country in NAME
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
The name for kings/queens in Ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is a pharaoh?
200
The center of a Sumerian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The most common religion in NAME.
What is Islam?
200
The process of removing salt from sea water.
What is desalinization or desalination?
300
The three most common climate types in NAME.
What are desert, steppe, and mediterranean?
300
The 2 main purposes of ancient pyramids.
What are the resting place of pharaohs' tombs and to demonstrate the power and wealth of pharaohs?
300
The king who wrote a large system of laws for all aspects of Babylonian life.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The name for a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Hajj?
300
The main difference between the Nile River and the Tigris/Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Nile has a predictable flood cycle?
400
What is the name of the large salt lake in NAME?
What is the Dead Sea?
400
The 4 steps of mummification.
What are drying the body, removing the organs, wrapping in linen, and placing in a sarcophagus (coffin) for entombment?
400
The written language, approximate length that the Sumerian civilization lasted, and the two greatest achievements of the Mesopotamian people.
What is cuneiform, less than 2000 years, and the wheel or irrigation techniques?
400
The name of the deity in each of the 3 main NAME religions.
What is God (Judaism and Christianity) and Allah (Islam)?
400
The 3 NAME peninsulas we have discussed.
What are the Arabian, Sinai, and Anatolian Peninsulas?
500
The sources of the Nile River.
What are Lake Tana and Lake Victoria?
500
The number of men, the amount of time, and the king for whom the Great Pyramid at Giza was built.
What are 100,000 men, 20 years, and King Khufu?
500
The most significant reason that the Mesopotamian civilizations crumbled.
What is no centralized government?
500
Five things that all 3 NAME religions have in common.
What is a holy book, a place of worship, Jerusalem as a holy city, monotheism, and holy days (holidays)?
500
The duties of a pharaoh or king/queen.
What are conducting religious ceremonies, making laws, and creating taxes?