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100

The practice of farming is also known as this.

What is agriculture?

100

A wide, flat plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 

What is Mesopotamia?

100

This river allowed ancient Egyptians to produce a food surplus despite living in a desert.

What is the Nile?

100
A fixed social class into which a person is born.

What is a caste?

100

In this class, we have taken this many tests.

What is 4?

200

A person who lives by hunting small animals and gathering plants.

What is a hunter-gatherer?

200

The belief in multiple gods is known as this.

What is polytheism?

200

The Nile River flows in this direction.

What is south to north?

200

The Maurya Empire was founded by this Indian ruler.

Who is Chandragupta?

200

This material becomes lava when it reaches the surface.

What is magma?

300

The development of farming is referred to by this phrase.

What is the neolithic agricultural revolution?

300

This was the world's first empire.

What is "the Akkadian Empire?"

300

This dynasty was the 33rd and last in ancient Egypt's history.

What is the Ptolemaic Dynasty?

300

The Gupta Empire was one of the first groups of people to develop this concept.

What is zero?

300

In Hatchet, this event led to Brian learning to create fire.

What is the porcupine attack?

400

The belief that spirits were everywhere in the natural world is known as 

What is animism?

400

This set of laws governed life in the Babylonian Empire.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

400

Ancient Egypt's bureaucracy was managed by the person in this high-ranking position.

What is the vizier?

400

Early Hinduism emerged from this religion.

What is the Vedic religion?

400
If a mug of hot cocoa takes two cups of milk and one cup of cocoa powder, making three cups would take this ratio of milk to cocoa powder. 

What is 6:3?

500

Changing something in ways that are useful for humans is known as this.

What is domestication?

500

This group of people was known for sailing around the Mediterranean. 

What are the Phoenecians?

500

The Pyramids at Giza were built for these three pharaohs.

What is Khufu, Khafre, and Menkuare?

500

As the Maurya emperor, Asoka tried to rule by these three principles. 

What is ahimsa (or nonviolence), tolerance, and well-being?
500

December 19th

What is the half day of school before Christmas break?