Unit 1 Jeopardy Geography Mesopotamia Egypt Indus Valley China 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50
Feb 23, 2016
Unit 1 JeopardyGeography Mesopotamia Egypt Indus Valley China
10 10 10 10 10
20 20 20 20 20
30 30 30 30 30
40 40 40 40 40
50 50 50 50 50
Name these four civilizations (10 each):A – B – C – D –
Name these four RIVERS (20 each):A – B – C – (western)
D –
Name the mountains here:
Name the desert here
Name the mountains here
Name the wedge-shaped writing of
Mesopotamia
The city-state of Sumer was ruled by a priest.
What type of government is that?
The Code of Hammurabi came from
this Mesopotamian civilization.
The “Twelve Tribes” were descendants of this
man.
Name the greatest accomplishment of the
Phoenicians.
Egyptian life revolved, or focused, around this.
Pyramids were built for this purpose:
Found in 1799, the Rosetta Stone allowed
archeologists to translate this writing of
Egypt:
Name the title of the leader of Egypt.
The main limitation of hieroglyphics is this.
Aryans left few artifacts because they were this,
or “wanderers”
Early peoples were able to cross the mountains and enter India through
this physical feature.
Indoor plumbing was a feature of this Indus
Valley city.
The “one univesal spirit” in Hinduism is
known as this:
The Mauryan Empire was large, but it worked well because it used this
form of government.
Out of the following, which was NOT a
dominant (main) physical feature in Ancient China?-mountains - rivers
-plains - deserts
According to the Dynastic Cycle, how
does a new dynasty gain power?
This emperor ordered many existing walls to be joined together to form a “great wall”
The Silk Road was opened, or “built,” but
which emperor?
Liu Bang was the first emperor of which
dynasty?