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Ancient Civilizations
Mark Russo &
Mark Spiconardi
2008-2009 PGP
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Round 1
Round 2
Final
Jeopardy
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Neolithic
Age
Egypt
Mesopota
mia
China
India
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Round 2
Final
Jeopardy
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It was the major development of
the Neolithic Age.
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What is agriculture?
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It was the lifestyle humans left
behind as a result of the Neolithic
Age.
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What is nomadic?
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It is the term for the complex
societies that came about as a
result of the Neolithic Age.
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What is civilization?
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These are three characteristics of
a civilization.
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What are complex institutions,
record keeping, cities, advanced
technology, and/or specialized
workers.
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It is what the term “Neolithic
Age” means.
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What is new stone age?
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The river was Egyptian
civilization established.
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What is the Nile River?
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It was the title used by the rulers
of Egypt.
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What is pharaoh?
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It was the name of the writing
system developed in ancient
Egypt seen here:
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What are hieroglyphs?
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The famous stone sculpture
shown below.
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What is the Sphinx?
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Found by the French, it was the
key used to translate the
Egyptian writing system.
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What is the Rosetta Stone?
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These are the two rivers of
Mesopotamia.
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What are the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers?
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It is the name of the writing
system that was developed in
ancient Mesopotamia.
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What is cuneiform?
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Historians have “eyed” this set of
written law from Mesopotamia as
one the earliest ever recorded.
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What is Hammurabi's Code?
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Mesopotamia is located in this
modern day country.
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What is Iraq?
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It is the name of the first
civilization to develop in
Mesopotamia.
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What is Sumer?
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These are two of the major rivers
of ancient Chinese civilzation.
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What are the Huang He and
Yangtze Rivers?
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The type of metal that the ancient
Chinese were skilled with.
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What is bronze?
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Besides gods, the Chinese also
worshipped them.
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What are their ancestors?
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The Chinese referred to
themselves as this two-word
phrase.
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What is the “Middle Kingdom?”
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The first family of rulers to
come to power in ancient China.
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Who are the Xia?
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This river was the major river of
ancient Indian civilization.
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What is the Indus River?
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It is the type of landmass that
India is.
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What is a peninsula?
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The name of the Indian social
hierarchy shown below.
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What is the caste system?
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Without the Indus people being
the first to weave it, this fabric
may not have become the “fabric
of our lives.”
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What is cotton?
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These two cities give evidence of
urban planning by the Indus
people.
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What are Mohenjo-Daro and
Harappa?
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Ancient
Religiou
s Beliefs
Name
That
Group of
People
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Egypt
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Ancient
Mesopota Geography
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Final
Jeopardy
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The term used to describe almost
all ancient religious systems.
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What is polytheistic/animistic?
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During this ancient Egyptian
preparation for the afterlife, the
brain was removed through the
nostrils.
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What is mummification?
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Food offerings made to the gods
was a form of this.
Mesoamericans preferred to offer
children.
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What is sacrifice?
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It is the name of the large mudbrick & step-like structures that
were built to honor
Mesopotamian gods.
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What are ziggurats?
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The practice used by ancient
Chinese rulers to communicate
with the gods by reading bones.
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What is divination?
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They developed the first lasting
monotheistic religion.
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Who are the Hebrews?
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They are an ancient
Mesoamerican civilization known
for constructing these large
heads:
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Who are the Olmecs?
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These “carriers of civilization”
developed an alphabet we use
today and carried ideas
throughout the Mediterranean.
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Who are the Phoenicians?
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These people developed the
Zoroastrian religion and were
eventually conquered by
Alexander the Great.
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Who are the Persians?
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This group of people moved into
India, imposed a caste system,
and laid the foundations for the
Hindu religion.
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Who are the Aryans?
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The structures used as tombs for
the rulers of Egypt.
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What are the pyramids?
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He is the famous “Boy King” of
Egypt whose tomb was
discovered over 80 years ago.
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Who is Tutankhamen?
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It was used as paper in ancient
Egypt and you can also find a
store by its name in The
Westchester.
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What is papyrus?
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She was the last pharaoh of
Egypt whose life ended tragically
when both she & her husband
Marcus Antonius committed
suicide separately.
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Who is Cleopatra (VII)?
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The Egyptian god of the Dead
seen here:
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Who is Anubis?
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The most well-known law that
was included in the
Mesopotamian code of laws.
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What is “If a man put out the eye
of another man, his eye shall be
put out?”
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One of the oldest stories in the
world about a king dealing with
the loss of his friend Enkidu.
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What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
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Derived from the Greek,
Mesopotamia can be translated to
mean this in English.
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What is the “land between two
rivers?”
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There were the group of people
who were trained to read and
write cuneiform.
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Who are the scribes?
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It was the most powerful citystate in Mesopotamia under the
ruler Hammurabi.
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What is Babylon?
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The type of region in which most
of the first substantial
civilizations formed.
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What are river valleys?
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It is the geographic feature that
brought heavy rains to India each
year.
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What are monsoons?
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It was the most isolated of the
major ancient civilizations on
account of the desert, mountains,
and jungle that surrounded it.
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What is China?
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The term used to describe the
fertile material that was deposited
each year during annual floods.
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What is silt?
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One of the two major mountain
ranges that surround India.
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What are the Himalaya and the
Ghats Mountains?
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Human Migration
Final
Jeopardy
Question
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Considered on of the longest and
largest movements of people, it took
place in sub-Saharan Africa from
approximately 3000 – 800 B.C.E.
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What is the Bantu migration?