Geography & Pre-History
Egypt
Mesopotamia
China
India
100
Name of the baseline from which parallels of latitude are measured?
What is Equator
100
the system of writing developed in ancient Egypt
What is Hieroglyphics
100
Name the system of Sumerian writing
What is Cuneiform
100
The river in China with the nickname "The River of Sorrow"
What is the Huang He River (Yellow River)
100
the religion that Siddhartha Guatama's teachings were based off of
What is Buddhism
200
The role of hunter-gatherers
What is To hunt food and collect plants
200
the most fertile area along the Nile River
What is The Nile's Delta
200
the person who received the Ten Commandments from God at Mt. Sinai
Who is Moses
200
This is what Shihuangdi set up to help unify China
What is a single system of writing and money
200
the river that most people in India settled near
What is the Indus River
300
Definition of the term specialization?
What is When people have a specific job in society
300
this is what Egypt's economy based on
What is Agriculture/Farming
300
The Code of Law that was created by Hammurabi to make sure that the strong did not injure the weak
What is The Code of Hammurabi
300
Respecting elders and keeping traditions alive is the key beliefs of which ancient Chinese philosopher?
Who is Confucious
300
Your actions in this life will affect your next life is describing the Hinduism belief of
What is Karma
400
The period in history in which agriculture was developed
What is Neolithic Age/New Stone Age
400
how the Egyptians prepared their tombs for the afterlife
What is They placed their treasures and possessions inside their tombs
400
The religion of the Jewish people
What is Judaism
400
name a negative effect of the flooding of the Huang River
What is it destroyed villages/crops and killed people
400
The steps in the cycle of reincarnation
What is :Life-Death- Rebirth
500
the invention that allowed nomads to settle in one location
What is Fire
500
Name of the archaeologist who found King Tut's tomb in 1922
Who is Howard Carter
500
The present day Middle Eastern country, that was referred to in the past, as Mesopotamia
What is Iraq
500
The reason why Wudi created great schools of learning in ancient China
What is to train people for government jobs/civil service exams
500
name 2 reasons why historians believe Mohenjo Daro had a strong government
What is Grid style streets/Paved Roads/ a Sewer System