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Early ManAnd Civilizations

Early India and China

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Egypt and Mesopotamia

Final Jeopardy

Judaism

$100 Question from Geography

What is the study of the Earth, its resources, and how it is used by the people who live on it?

$100 Answer from Geography

Geography! (2)

$200 Question from Geography

What’s the difference between a primary source of information and a secondary

source of information?

$200 Answer from Geography

A primary source is written by someone who was actually at an event

A secondary source of information is written by someone who was not at an event

(1)

$300 Question from Geography

What is the name for the triangle shaped piece of land formed from items carried downstream by a

river and deposited at its mouth?

$300 Answer from Geography

A Delta!

(17)

$400 Question from Geography

What is zero degrees longitude(lines which run up/down and north/south)?

$400 Answer from Geography

The Prime Meridian(6)

$500 Question from Geography

What are the 5 themes of geography?

$500 Answer from Geography

Place, Region, Movement, LocationAnd Human Environment Interaction

(3)

$100 Question from Judaism

Why is Judaism a monotheistic religion?

$100 Answer from Judaism

Because they only worship one god!

(Unlike the Sumerians and Egyptians who were polytheistic because they worshipped many gods)

(41, 96)

$200 Question from Judaism

What religious figure led the Jews out of Egypt and was also given the 10

Commandments?

$200 Answer from Judaism

Moses(99)

$300 Question from Judaism

What was the massive departure of the Jews from Egypt back to Canaan called?

$300 Answer from Judaism

Exodus(100)

$400 Question from Judaism

Jewish kings Saul and David established what capital city that is still important to the

Jews today?

$400 Answer from Judaism

Jerusalem(101)

$500 Question from Judaism

The Jewish religious figure Abraham isalso important to what other two religions?

$500 Answer from Judaism

ChristianityAnd Islam(98)

$100 Question from Early Man and Civilizations

The first stage of man, Australopithecus Afarenis started on which continent?

$100 Answer from Early Man and Civilizations

Africa(21)

$200 Question from Early Man and Civilizations

Name one of 6 characteristics of a civilization

$200 Answer from Early Man and Civilizations

Cities with a Constant Food SupplySpecialized Jobs

Social order of those jobsGovernment

Religion SystemArts(35)

$300 Question from Early Man and Civilizations

During the Neolithic Age was man hunter and gatherers or farmers?

$300 Answer from Early Man and Civilizations

Farmers!(during the Paleolithic Period they were

hunters and gatherers)(29,22)

$400 Question from Early Man and Civilizations

What is an artisan?

$400 Answer from Early Man and Civilizations

Someone who makes things by hand(33)

$500 Question from Early Man and CivilizationsWhich stage of man was the first stage to migrate (leave) out of Africa?

$500 Answer from Early Man and Civilizations

Homo Erectus(25)

$100 Question from Egypt and Mesopotamia

What 2 rivers run through Mesopotamia(which connected Asia, Europe, and Africa

together)?

$100 Answer from Egypt and Mesopotamia

Tigris and Euphrates River(36)

$200 Question from Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ancient Egypt is considered a perfect example of a theocracy - What is a theocracy?

$200 Answer from Egypt and Mesopotamia

A government in which the ruler is also in charge of the religion (The King = the High Priest)

(for example, the pharaoh is both god and king)(40, 61, 62)

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$300 Question from Egypt and Mesopotamia

The Sumerians created one of the first forms of writing –

what is that form of writing called?

$300 Answer from Egypt and Mesopotamia

Cuneiform(which was later used to write

their greatest story – the Epic of Gilgamesh)(46, 48)

$400 Question from Egypt and Mesopotamia

What king united Upper and Lower Egypt?

$400 Answer from Egypt and MesopotamiaKing Menes

(Egypt was divided into Upper andLower Egypt thanks to the Nile River

which flowed upstream thanks to various landforms)

(52, 60)

$500 Question from Egypt and Mesopotamia

The ancient system of laws knownAs Hammurabi’s Code (which workedOn the basis of “an eye for an eye, a Tooth for a tooth” was from where?

$500 Answer from Egypt and Mesopotamia

Babylon(50)

$100 Question from Early India and China

What is the name of the Indian seasonal storms that bring India during the summer either too much or too little precipitation

which effects how crops grow?

$100 Answer from Early India and China

Monsoons!(75)

$200 Question from Early India and China

What is the Chinese idea that statesthat the gods choose who should rule

and that if the ruler goes against the willof the gods, the people will suffer?

$200 Answer from Early India and China

Mandate from Heaven(85)

$300 Question from Early India and China

What are the names of the 2 riversthat go through Ancient India?

$300 Answer from Early India and China

The Indus River and the Ganges River

(74)

$400 Question from Early India and China

What was the name of the bones that wereused not only to predict the future but also

inspired the Chinese writing system?

$400 Answer from Early India and China

Oracle Bones(83, 84)

$500 Question from Early India and China

What is a group of related rulers who govern/rule over an extended period of time

(like in China or Egypt)?

$500 Answer from Early India and China

A Dynasty(81)

Final Jeopardy Question

Archaeologists (people who dig up early settlements), anthropologists (scientists who try to recreate civilizations), and

paleontologists (scientists who try to recreate ancient civilizations),all try to use what specific element/isotope to find out how old a fossil is?

Final Jeopardy Answer

Carbon 14!(18, 19, 20)