The two rivers that run through the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
Name 2 important Sumerian inventions...
What are the plow, sickle, hoe, sailboat, arch, writing
(cuneiform), arithmetic, geometry?
100
Trading one item for another is called ________.
What is BARTER?
100
Hammurabi's code is...
What is "THE VERY FIRST CODE OF WRITTEN LAWS POSTED IN PUBLIC FOR ALL TO SEE"?
100
The ancient Egyptian civilization was built on the banks of the Nile River because....
What is "because the soil was very very fertile"?
200
Mesopotamia means "land between two ....."
What is "rivers"?
200
The name of the world's very first kind of writing...
What is CUNEIFORM?
200
Traders brought home two important things....
What are goods and new ideas?
200
The pyramids were built as ....
What are TOMBS?
300
Most ancient civilizations were built on .....
What are rivers?
300
In ancient Sumer, a professional writer was called a...
What is a SCRIBE?
300
The spread of a peoples culture and ideas is called...
What is CULTURAL DIFFUSION?
300
The seasonal winds & rains that blow through India are called....
What are the MONSOONS?
400
CUNEIFORM was originally invented...
a. to write epic poems
b. to write love songs
c. to write down Hammurabi's code of laws
d. to record trades and taxes
What is "to record trades & taxes"?
400
Who were the two best known kings of Babylonia?
Who are King Nebuchaneezer and King Hammurabi?
400
Most ancient Indian cities were....
What is "planned"?
500
BONUS FOR THE CLASS: The water that runs through the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers comes from ....
What is melted snow from nearby mountains?
500
BONUS FOR THE CLASS: Ancient Sumerians worshipped at temples called __________. They worshipped many gods - a practice which is called __________.
What are "ziggurats" and "polytheism"?
500
BONUS FOR CLASS: ONE MARBLE!!
One reason King Nebuchaneezer is famous is because he built what structure to make his wife happy?
What are the HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON?
500
BONUS: The term for the spreading of culture and ideas to new areas & people....
What is CULTURAL DIFFUSION?
500
BONUS: The ancient Egyptians used the papyrus plant to make paper. They found these papyrus plants....