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Geography
Ancient Life
This and That
Colossal Construction
That and This
100
The river that gave rise to the ancient Egyptian culture.
What is the Nile River?
100
These allowed the Inca to create farm fields in their mountainous homeland.
What are terraces?
100
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
100
The Great Pyramid was built for this great pharaoh.
Who is Kufu?
100
Responsible for the death of millions during the Middle Ages.
What is the plague?
200
The mountain range that spans southern Asia and has the highest peak in the world...Mt. Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
200
Having this allowed some people to do things other than farming?
What is surplus
200
A king of Egypt
What is a pharaoh
200
The ancient Mississippian cultures were also known as the...
What are Mound Builders?
200
Was murdered on the "Ides of March".
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
These lines measure distances north and south of the equator.
What are latitude lines?
300
Scientists who study the remains of human culture to learn about life long ago. Mrs. Pape will leave to become one soon.
What is an archaeologist?
300
Rulers that belong to one family
What is a dynasty
300
The "Arena of Death" in ancient Rome.
What is the colliseum?
300
The oldest set of written laws that archaeologists have ever found
What is the Code of Hammurabi
400
Home of the Prime Meridian.
What is Greenwich, England?
400
Early humans were called this. A way to survive before we began farming.
What is hunter-gatherer?
400
The three great monotheistic religions were developed in this part of the world.
What is the Middle East?
400
The ancient Greeks are famous for this beautiful yet necessary part of many of their temples.
What is the column?
400
A way that social scientists explain the migration of people from one place to another.
What are push and pull factors?
500
Show how time of day changes across the globe as Earth spins on its axis
What are time zones?
500
This civilization is credited with inventing the first system of writing
Who are the Sumerians
500
India still struggles with this ancient division of people into social groups.
What is the caste system?
500
The creators of the "equinox serpent temple".
Who are the Maya?
500
Was founded in order to provide defense for member countries in case of war.
What is the United Nations?