Mesopotamia
What is the name of the king who went crazy for 7 years?
King Nebuchadnezzar
What is the name of the king who unified China?
Qin Shi Huangdi
What is the name of the famous statue found in Mohenjo Daro?
the Dancing Girl
Who was left behind?
If you could not contribute to the group, like knowledge of survival, or you were too slow/old/young, the group would decide if you were meant to stay with the group or be left behind
What does Egypt mean?
"Soul of Ptah"
What is a ziggurat? What was at the top?
A multi-layer clay building with a temple on the top
Who protects the dead king? How many are there?
The 8,000+ terra cotta warriors.
What is the name of the large body of water at Mohenjo Daro?
The Great Bath
What is the name of the Ice Man we found left in the ice? (oldest complete body discovered yet)
Otzi the Ice Man
What is the name of the ruler who created the first peace treaty? With what other country?
King Ramses, Hittites
What ziggurat was made for Queen Amytis to cure her homesickness? Who made it for her? Where is it located?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, King Sargon the Great, no one has found it yet!
What is the imperial color? What fabric would he wear? Where does that fabric come from? (3 answers)
Yellow, silk, silk worms
How did they keep out the bad smells? (3 answers)
Bathing
Toilets
Limestone covering the sewer drains
How did you survive the cold? (4 answers)
heat (body heat, fire, wearing furs, housing with pits and layers)
What is the name of the ruler who changed Egypt for a period of 20 years from multiple Gods to one God? What is the name of the one God?
King Akenaten, Aten
Who was the original baby in a basket?
What military formation did he make?
What invention did he make other than roads?
King Sargon the Great
Phalanx formation
Mail (and addresses)
What substance was found in the soil by the tomb? (1 answer)
What parts of the body does it impact? (3 answers)
Mercury
Kidneys, brain, intestines, nervous system, lungs (and heart)
What is the name of the decoder of the Indus Valley language? What language is it similar to?
Yajna Devam, Brahmi
What made you stay alive? (1 best answer)
community
Why was King Tutankhamen's tomb found intact? (2 answers)
What treasure did they find with him? Whose was it? (2 answers)
He was partially erased from the history books, and there was a shift in the ground which covered his tomb.
His death mask, which was most likely Queen Nefertiti's
Why was God upset with the Mesopotamians? What architecture did he destroy? What other consequence did they suffer? What word do we use that comes from this story?
They built a tower that led to heaven (called the Tower of Babel).
God destroyed the Tower of Babel.
The people were dispersed and no longer spoke 1 language, but instead many languages.
Babeling (like when you talk on and on without meaning).
What are the names of the 2 rivers? You need all 4 names for it to count!
Yellow River = Yang Jiang River
Yangtze River = River of Sorrows
What 2 countries did India become? Why did India split into 2 countries and when?
After World War 2, India became India and Pakistan due to religious differences: India (mainly Hindu), Pakistan (mainly Muslim)
What were the layers of the homes and what did they do?
Animal hides/furs (protection from wind), Mud (temperature control), Sticks (drainage), Mammoth bones (structure)
Who are the Gods involved in the story of Set's takeover? Who won? What is the meaning of this story?
Set (God of Chaos, protector of Ra at night), Osiris (King of the Gods), Isis (wife of Osiris, Goddess of mothers), Horus (son of Osiris and Isis, hawk head)
Set kills Osiris, Isis revives Osiris, Set becomes King and leads world into chaos, Isis and Osiris have Horus (baby) and when he is older he fights Set and wins becoming the king
The Gods determine the rulers and rules and we should not create chaos by going against them.