jeopardy – river valleys – round 1
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JEOPARDY – 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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?