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1) Students become members of a Social Studies Team.

2) Each student on team will be given a number 1-8.

3) Spin wheel to see which student gets question.

4) Both the team and individual student will answer question separately.

5) Each question worth 1 point for team / 2 points for individual. Potential to earn 3 points total.

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The ANCIENT WORLD final challenge

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Q1

How many hemispheres are there in the world?

Historian, Archeologists and Geographer

Q2

What are the three types of social scientists?

Geographer

Q3

Which social scientists would be interested in river valleys?

Archeologist

Q4

Which social scientist would be interested in a dagger?

Geographer

Q5

Which social scientist would be interested in a map?

Historian

Q6

Which social scientist would be interested in a scroll?

Why would a social scientist not find any writing during the Stone Age?

Writing did not exist. (prehistoric)

Q7

Paleolithic and Neolithic

Q8

What are the two parts of the Stone Age?

Paleolithic

Q9

What word means old stone age?

What does Neolithic mean?

New Stone Age

Q10

the use of stone for tools

Q11

What discovery started the Stone Age?

What discovery started the Paleolithic Age?

the use of stone tools

Q12

the discovery of farming

Q13

What discovery ended the Paleolithic Age?

agriculture

Q14

What term refers to the business of farming?

the discovery of metal

Q15

What discovery ended the Neolithic Age?

the discovery of metal

Q16

What discovery ended the Stone Age?

What terms means to train a wild animal to be useful to humans?

domesticate

Q17

they hunted and gathered food

Q18

How did the earliest humans get enough food to survive?

stable food supply

Q19

When agriculture was discovered, which of the five features

was first to develop?

specialization of labor

Q20

When people had a stable food supply, what was the next feature to be developed?

trade

Q21

Because people had different jobs, what were they able to do with

their surplus of goods?

Mesopotamia

Q22

What word means the land between two rivers?

The first cities started to developed in the southern part of Mesopotamia.

What was this area called?

Sumer

Q23

An area that had their own ruler and their own farmland was called what?

a city state

Q24

Name two defense systems city-states used to

defend themselves against enemies?

moats and walls

Q25

What new invention allowed the people of Sumer to

grown enough food for it’s people?

the irrigation systems

Q26

What was the first problem the people of Mesopotamia faced in the hills?

food shortage

Q27

uncontrolled water supply

Q28

When the people of Mesopotamia moved fromthe hills to the river plains,

what problem did they face?

attacks by neighboring villages

Q29

Once Sumerians built an irrigation system and agreed to maintain it,

what was the last problem they faced?

social levels

Q30

In order for a society to be considered a civilization,

It must meet five features.

Which feature is missing….

Highly developed culturesystem of governmentspecialization of labor

stable food supply

system of government, social levels, and specialization of labor

Q31

Which feature(s) would include a pharaoh, vizier, and scribe?

Highly developed culture - writing

Q32

Which feature would cuneiform be found?

Neo-Babylonian

Q33

There were four empires found in Mesopotamia. Which one is missing:

Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian

being the worlds first empire

Q34

What was the Akkadian empire most known for?

Which of the empires of Mesopotamia developed the first code of laws?

Bablyonian

Q35

Which of the empires were known for their

military strategy and ruthlessness?

Assyrian

Q36

Which of the empires was known for the Hanging Gardens?

Neo-Babylonian

Q37

What is the word that means “before written history?”

prehistoric

Q38

artifact

Q39

What is a manmade object called?

civilization

Q40

A complex society has five features. What is another name for a complex society?

they had to work together / grew into towns

Q41

What was the effect of many Sumerian villages

using the same irrigation system?

Which civilization we studied got their food supply mostly through trade?

Ancient Greece

Q42

one has a leader/emperor, larger area of land is covered

Q43

Name one major difference between a city-state and an empire?

The Nile River

Q44

What was the most important physical feature of Egypt?

Be specific when naming this physical feature.

protection from invaders

Q45

What is a possible benefit of living near a desert or a mountain range?

vegetation

Q46

What environmental factor includes plants?

topography

Q47

Which environmental factor includes river plains and mountains?

What geographical feature is surrounded by water on 3 sides?

peninsula

Q48

vegetation

Q49

Papyrus would fit under which environmental factor?

water

Q50

Out of the three environmental factors, which was the MOST important

to early civilizations?

Mediterranean Sea

Q51

What body of water did the Nile River empty into?

The Red Sea

Q52

What body of water is found east of Egypt?

Nile is fresh water, seas are salty

Q53

What is a major difference between the Nile River and the other seas

surrounding Egypt?

Tigris and Euphrates

Q54

What are the names of the two rivers the Mesopotamians

used for irrigation?

Age of Pyramids

Q55

What was the nickname of the Old Kingdom in Egypt?

Why was the Middle Kingdom in Egypt nicknamed the “Period of Reunification?”

it followed years of chaos when no one was in charge

Q56

A Golden Age

Q57

The New Kingdom was known for being a time of peace and wealth.

What else can this time period be called?

Ramses

Q58

Which of the four Egyptian pharaohs we studied is missing?

Senusret I

Khufu

Hatshepsut

Senuesret I and Hatshepsut

Q59

Which two pharaohs ruled during the Period of Reunification?

Obelisk

Q60

What thin, tall monument could be find outside of Hatshepsut’s temple?

Hint: looks like the Washington Monument

Khufu

Q61

Which Egyptian pharaoh was known for building the Great Pyramid?

to bury himself and his family

Q62

Why did Khufu build the Great Pyramid?

Name two things Hatshepsut was known for:

first woman pharaoh / expedition to Punt

Q63

Senusret I

Q64

Which pharaoh was known for his religious architecture, such as the White Chapel?

Ramses

Q65

Which pharaoh made a peace treaty with the Hittites and

was known for having 100 wives?

artisan

Q66

What’s another word for a craftsperson?

peasants

Q67

A person who does farm work for wealthy landowners were called this.

vizier

Q68

Besides the pharaoh, the highest ranking Egyptian government official is called this.

the chief treasurer

Q69

There were three important government officials

the vizier

the general of the armies

and whom

(hint: he collected taxes)?

What was a main leisure activity for the high government officials in Egypt?

banquets

Q70

What word means “to treat a dead body with preservatives

to prevent it from decaying?”

embalm

Q71

priests

Q72

In Egypt, who advised the pharaoh, oversaw religious activities and

were responsible for embalming individuals?

sarcophagus

Q73

What was the name given to an Egyptian coffin?

to become a scribe

Q74

What was the only way to move up the social pyramid in Egypt?

because they were the record keepers

Q75

Why were the scribes more important than the artisans in Egypt?

work on projects for the pharaohs

Q76

During the flooding season, what did the farmers do in ancient Egypt?

What word means a severe shortage of food?

famine

Q77

extra food/crops

Q78

What did farmers use to pay taxes?

Ziggurat

Q79

What was the name of the temple where the Sumerians believed the gods lived?

Sparta was located on a plain between the mountains and the sea

in which part of Greece?

Name of the area

Peloponnesus

Q80

direct democracy

Q81

Athenians had this type of government

Oligarchy

Q82

Spartans had this type of government

Council of 500

Q83

This governing body was responsible for running the day to day business of Athens and suggesting new laws.

The Council of Elders

Q84

The Spartan government had an assembly, but the main power was in the hands of

this governing body

economy

Q85

The way a community organizes the manufacture and exchange of money,

food, products and services is called

farming and conquering neighbors

Q86

Spartan economy was based on these two things

helots

Q87

Spartans conquered neighbors , made them slaves and insisted

they give Sparta the food they grew.

What were these slaves were called?

Sparta

Q88

In which city-state, Athens or Sparta,

did the boys start their military training at age 7?

Acropolis

Q89

What is the name of the hill that sits high about Athens?

as a dwelling place for the gods

Q90

Why were temples built in Athens?

Apollo

Q91

Who were the Greeks hoping to hear from at the Temple of Delphi?

philosophy

Q92

What is the word used to describe “The love of wisdom”

to have better sound

Q93

Why were Greek theaters shaped like a bowl?

Phidias

Q94

Who was a famous sculptor from Athens who created the 30 foot Athena

in the Parthenon?

wealthy, landowner

Q95

What made an aristocrat, an aristocrat? Name two characteristics

a tyrant

Q96

What was the name given to the person who overthrew

the Oligarchy with the support of his supporters?

city-states

Q97

Due to Greece’s geography, most Greeks lived

in a place where it had their own laws, army, money and form of government.

What were these places called?

2 kings and 28 men over 60 years old

Q98

Who was included in the Council of Elders?

oligarchy

Q99

Which form of government in ancient Greece was ruled by aristocrats?

citizen

Q100

What was the name given to the members in the assembly?