Supreme Court
The document that created the Supreme Court
What is the U.S. Constitution
The name of the group of people that were the first leaders in Sumer.
What is priests?
The term for the rule passed down in one family that historians use to describe Chinese rulers.
What is a dynasty
The name used for the leader of the government in Egypt
What is pharaoh?
The meaning of the phrase "State" in the term separation of Church and State.
What is government?
One responsibility of the Supreme Court
What is
*Make sure that laws (federal and state) do not conflict with the Constitution.
*They decide cases where states disagree
*They decide cases involving people from other governments.
The name of the type of person who was probably a leader in the Olmec Civilization
What is a shaman?
What Chinese people believed made certain families worthy of being in power
What is permission of the gods?
This is the term used to describe rulers in Egypt because they were related to a god.
What is divine?
This group is responsible for deciding whether an action violates the separation of Church and State
What is the Supreme Court?
The name of the branch of government that includes the Supreme Court
What is judicial?
One responsibility of Sumerian leaders
What is
keeping up irrigation system
managing farming/agriculture?
The term for a victory by force over other people
What is conquest?
What did Egyptians believe about their ruler while he was living?
What is they believed he was a mediator between people and gods?
This is one reason that the idea of one Church and one State did not fit in the American colonies
What is the colonies were geographically distant from each other.
What is the colonies were diverse in many ways.
The number of justices currently serving on the Supreme Court
What is nine?
What is the Spanish destroyed the Olmec written records when they conquered them?
A concept that meant that rulers could gain and lose permission to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The part of Egyptian life that was controlled by the government
What is all of it?
This group of early settlers in the American colonies came for religious freedom, but they didn't believe in freedom of religion for anyone else.
Who are Puritans?
The name (last name is fine) of one justice currently serving on the Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts, Clarence Thomas Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The name of the first Chinese dynasty with written records
What is the Shang?
The name of the god that was associated with the pharaoh after he died.
What is Osiris?
The founding fathers of the U.S. believed that freedom of religion was necessary for this
What is political freedom?