Transcript What is Mesopotamia?

JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1
Geography
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus
Huang HE
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Geography 100
The Egyptian civilization
grew up around this river.
What is the Nile River?
Geography 200
The name of this area in
the Fertile Crescent means
“between the rivers”
What is Mesopotamia?
Geography 300
These two rivers form the
backbone of the Fertile
Crescent.
What are the Tigris and the
Euphrates?
Geography 400
The first Indian
civilizations grew up
around this river.
What is the Indus River?
Geography 500
The first Chinese
civilizations emerged on
this river
What is the Huang He River?
Mesopotamia 100
This building was the most
prominent in any
Mesopotamian city.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamia 200
This invention made it
easier for traders to travel
and take cargo over a long
distance.
What is the wheel?
Mesopotamia 300
These people were at the
bottom of the
Mesopotamian social
hierarchy.
Who are slaves?
Mesopotamia 400
This king is best known for
enforcing one of the first
written law codes in
history.
Who is Hammurabi?
Mesopotamia 500
Mesopotamians had this
kind of government, in
which the religious
authority is also the
government authority.
What is theocracy?
Egypt 100
These buildings were
intended to be eternal
tombs for dead pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
Egypt 200
This characteristic of the
Nile is why Upper Egypt is
in the south.
What is flowing south to north?
Egypt 300
This geographic feature, a
deposit of silt at the
mouth of a river, is named
after a Greek letter
What is a delta?
Egypt 400
This period of ancient
Egyptian history is also
called the Pyramid Age.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Egypt 500
These people invaded and
conquered Egypt using
their superior military
technology.
Who are the Hyksos?
Indus 100
This is the religion of the
Indus.
What is polytheism?
Indus 200
This was unique among
the RVC and was not
reproduced until Rome and
th
then the 18 Century.
What is indoor plumbing?
Indus 300
In order to make things
more organized people in
the Indus did this.
What are planned cities?
Indus 400
This is why the Indus RVC
finally fell.
What is unknown?
Indus 500
These were the two main
cities along the Indus.
What is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
?
Huang He 100
This is the belief that gods
give the king the authority
to rule over the Chinese
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Huang He 200
This is the first dynasty in
China.
Who are the Shang?
Huang He 300
This rich fertile soil had a
yellow color to it.
What is loess?
Huang He 400
This dynasty introduced
the concept of the Mandate
of Heaven.
Who are the Zhou?
Huang He 500
This was the nickname
given to the Huang He
river.
What is China’s Sorrow?