Civilization + Settlement
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
100

The method people used to gain food after they stopped hunting and gathering

What is agriculture?

100

The two rivers associated with Mesopotamia

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

100

The river associated with Egypt

What is the Nile?
100

The three rivers associated with India

What are the Indus, Ganges, and Bramaputra?

100

The two rivers associated with China

What are the Huang He and Yangtze?

200

The common geographic feature shared by most major early civilizations

What is a river / rivers?

200

The region in the world where Mesopotamia was located.

What is the Middle East?

200

The region in the world where ancient Egypt was located

What is North Africa?


Will also take Africa as an answer!

200

The region where ancient India was located

What is the Indian subcontinent?

If no one answers w/ subcontinent, will take India. 

200

The continent that China is located on

What is Asia?

300

The time when people used rough stone tools and hunted and gathered to gain food.

What is the paleolithic age?

300

The seas and gulfs associated with Mesopotamia (hint: there are 5)

What are the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea?

300

The 4 deserts associated with ancient Egypt

What are the Nubian desert, the Libyan desert, the Eastern, and the Western deserts?

300

The two mountain ranges that create a northern barrier in India

What are the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountains?

300

The two major deserts within China

What are the Taklimakan and Gobi deserts?

400

The time when people began using advanced tools and agriculture to gain food

What is the Neolithic age?
400

The invention used to prevent or respond to flooding

What is a levee?

400

The invention used to transport water for crops and cleanliness

What is irrigation?


Will also take aqueduct

400

The two 'mountain' ranges that border the coast of India

What are the Western and Eastern Ghats?

400

The plateau located within China

What is the Tibet-Qinghai plateau?

500

The 7 characteristics of a civilization

What are stable food supply, religion, government, writing, technology, social structure, arts

500

The Latin meaning of the word Mesopotamia

What is the land between the rivers?

500
The unique feature of the Nile river compared to other rivers we have studied (hint: consider how or where the river flows)

What is the Nile flows upwards, as opposed to downward?

If no correct answers, will take there is only a single river - opposed to multiple.

500

The one river that people primarily settled on in India

What is the Indus river?

500

The invention used to create farmable land on mountainsides

What is terrace farming?