jeopardy – river valleys – round 1

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JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1

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

What is a delta?

This geographic feature, a deposit of silt at the

mouth of a river, is named after a Greek letter

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 then the 18th 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?