Mesopotamia and Ancient America
Economies
Gods and Society
Egypt
Miscellaneous
Potpouri
100
These enabled the Incas to travel quickly throughout the empire to carry messages and warn the empire of an attack
What are well built roads (including rope bridges over rivers and tunnels through mountains)?
100
Trade in silk, spices and precious metals contributed to the wealth of this societal group in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.
What is the middle class?
100
This is one way the ancient Israelites were similar to early Aryans.
What is they were nomadic?
100
He was a young boy and a pharaoh.
Who was Tutankhamen?
100
This Egyptian pharaoh changed worship practices.
Who was Akhenaten?
100
This product from the floodwaters of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, and from managed floodwaters (through dams, dikes and irrigation) in later civilizations, created fertile soil that allowed farmers in temperate climates to farm all year round.
What is silt?
200
This listed the offenses and the punishments in Mesopotamia.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
The economies of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley all relied on this.
What is farming?
200
Religion linked to politics in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt because both civilizations believed this.
What is that kings were revered as gods?
200
This ancient civilization produced pyramids and The Book of the Dead.
Who were the Egyptians?
200
These people used chinampas to increase food production.
Who were the Aztecs?
200
One way the Aryans influenced Indian civilization.
What is they brought their Indo-European language mixed with native languages of the region?
300
This King rebuilt Babylon.
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar?
300
What contributed to the wealth of the middle class in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley?
What are trade in silk, spices, and precious metals?
300
The Israelites considered this person to be a prophet because they believed he spoke for God.
Who is Moses?
300
He designed the first Egyptian pyramid.
Who was Imhotep?
300
The difference between pyramids in ancient Egypt and in the Mayan civilization.
What is in the Mayan civilization, pyramids honored the gods; in Egypt, they were tombs?
300
Both the Phoenicians and the Egyptians did this.
What is traded with people in other regions?
400
Belief in one god - what Abraham preached in Ur. and what the Israelites believed.
What is monotheism?
400
These had high value and low weight and were good for international trade, so they replaced other forms of exchange
What are coins?
400
These people usually occupied the lowest social class.
Who were slaves?
400
A geographical difference between the Mayan and Egyptian's civilization.
What is the Mayans lived in a geographically diverse area, while the Egyptians lived in a river valley?
400
Both Mayans and Egyptians showed an interest in this.
What is astronomy?
400
This is what the Israeli Kings David and Solomon did. (2 answers - one what King David did and another what King Solomon did)
What is King David made Jerusalem his capital city and King Solomon built a large temple in Jerusalem?
500
The geography of the Inca Empire
What is a mountainous region?
500
These people increased their wealth and territory by using tributes demanded from conquered peoples who provided warriors for defense, as well as food and resources for their own people.
Who were the Aztecs?
500
The Aryans introduced this religion and this system to Indian civilization.
What is Hinduism and the caste system?
500
The Egyptian form of writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
500
Ancient Greeks traded olive oil for this.
What was grains?
500
This modern country includes three ancient American civilizations.
What is Mexico?
600
This is what the Mesopotamians wrote on.
What are cuneiform tablets?
600
In Mesopotamia, the customs of the region decide which products to make and what crops to grow. This is an example of this type of economy.
What is a Traditional Economy?
600
The ziggurat linked the people of Mesopotamia to this.
What is the patron god of their city?
600
The economy of Ancient Egypt
What is a combination of Traditional and Command Economies?
600
When the pharaoh in Egypt decided how to distribute surplus crops, he was demonstrating this type of economy.
What is a Command Economy?
600
The Inca Empire was part of these three modern countries.
What are Peru, Argentina and Chile?