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Geography
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Greece
Challenge
100
A long, large body of fresh water.
What is a river?
100
A region in Southwest Asia that is shaped like a crescent and had fertile soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The "paper" that the egyptians used made out of reed
What is papyrus
100
A greek monument dedicated to the gods
What is the Parthenon
100
The ability to move from one social class to another
What is social mobility
200
A group of islands surrounding each other in a sea or ocean.
What is a archipelago?
200
A system of writing in ancient Mesopotamia that used
What is Cuneiform?
200
where they put your organs when you are mummified
What is canopic jars
200
The hill on which the Parthenon stands
What is Acropolis
200
Religious temple made by the Mesopotamians
What is ziggurat
300
An imaginary line that divides the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
282 laws made by the king of Mesopotamia.
What is the code of Hammurabi?
300
A decorated panel worn by pharoah
What is a cartouche
300
A famous speech given by Pericles
What is the funeral oration
300
A natural object that provides protection
What are natural barriers
400
Humans depend on the environment, humans modify the environment, humans adapt to the environment
What is human/environment interaction
400
What is the biggest challenge for mesopotamians in their environment?
What is flooding
400
The gift of Egypt
What is the Nile river
400
To peruse knowledge by asking questions
What is the Socratic method
400
A stone that helped translate the hieroglyphics
What is Rosetta stone
500
A strip of land that connects to continents
What is an isthmus
500
What 2 rivers border mesopotamia
What are Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
500
which god was said to have written the "book of the dead"
Who is Thoth
500
The Greek god of the earth?
Who is Gea
500
A cruel dictator, ruling over the area of mesopotamia
Who was Saddam Hussein