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The Know-It-All Game
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• Mesopotamia or Bust
• Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
• Indus River Valley
• Yellow River Valley
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #1
• What two rivers form Mesopotamia?
A) Indus and Ganges Rivers
B) Huang He and Yangtze Rivers
C) Nile and Amazon Rivers
D)Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #2
• The Sumerians built religious temples
called….
A) Ziggurats
B) Pyramids
C) Sarcophaguses
D) Shrines
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #3
• The Sumerians writing was known as…
A) hieroglyphics
B) ideograms
C) Sanskrit
D) cuneiform
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #4
• Which Mesopotamian created the first set
of written laws?
A) Hammurabi
B) Nebuchadnezzar
C) Sargon
D) Darius
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #5
• Under the Code of Hammurabi, if
someone kicked you in the shins what
could you do?
A) have them pay your doctor bill
B) kick them in the shins
C) kill that person
D) kick one of their family in the shins
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #6
• What could rich people do if they hurt
someone lower in rank under the Code of
Hammurabi?
A) Nothing, they would be hurt too
B) They could pay a fine instead
C) They were not punished
D) Leave town instead
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #7
• What type of religion was worshipped by
the peoples of Mesopotamia and Egypt?
A) Monotheistic
B) Polytheistic
C) Worshipped ancestors
D) Worshipped animals
Mesopotamia or Bust
Question #8
• Where is Mesopotamia?
A)
B)
C)
D)
You Win!!!!!!!
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #1
• Egypt is often called “the gift of the
_________”
A) Gods
B) Nile
C) Indus
D) Pyramids
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #2
• Where is Egypt?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #3
• What is the name for Egyptian writing?
A) Cuneiform
B) Hieroglyphics
C) Sanskrit
D) Ideograms
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #4
• What were pyramids built for?
A) places for worship
B) religious ceremonies
C) burial of pharaohs
D) storage for grain
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #5
• What best describes the purpose of
mummification?
A) to be born into a new caste in the next life
B) to protect body from evil spirits
C) to worship your ancestors
D) to preserve your body for the afterlife
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #6
• What artifact helped modern historians
read hieroglyphics?
A) Rosetta Stone
B) Memphis Codex
C) the Da Vinci Code
D) College textbook
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #7
• The pyramids were built by _________.
A) paid farmers between harvests and slaves
B) slaves
C) Egyptian soldiers
D) paid workers from other countries
Egypt, The Gift of the Nile
Question #8
• How did the Egyptian people view their
pharaohs?
A) as just kings
B) as gods on earth
C) as human beings
D) as an elected rulers
Indus River Valley
Question #1
• How do we know that the early Indians
had pretty much equal social status?
A) Only the wealthy learned to read and write
B) The rulers were seen as gods on earth
C) The houses were all the same size
D) Merchants had larger houses than peasants
Indus River Valley
Question #2
• Where is the Indus River Civilization?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Indus River Valley
Question #3
• Which cities were in the Indus River
Valley?
A) Memphis and Giza
B) Mohenjo Daro and Harappa
C) Sumer and Bablyon
D) Anyang and Zhengzhou
Indus River Valley
Question #4
• Which one of these features did Indus River
Valley cities have?
A) Well-planned city blocks
B) Sewers
C) Houses made of clay bricks
D) All of the above
Indus River Valley
Question #5
• What mountain range kept India isolated
A) Himalayas
B) Rockies
C) Hindu Kush
D) both A and C
Indus River Valley
Question #6
• What is a monsoon?
A) a giant rainstorm
B) a type of boat
C) a seasonal wind that brings extreme rain
D) a water shortage
Indus River Valley
Question #7
• Why do we understand very little about the
Indus River Civilization before the Aryans?
A) They left no artifacts
B) They had no cities
C) We can’t read their writing
D) We can’t go to India today
Yellow River Valley
Question #1
• Two rivers ran through China. One was the
Chang Jiang a.k.a. the Yangtze. The other was
the _________ a.k.a. the Yellow River.
A) Yangtze
B) Ganges
C) Huang He
D) Tigris
Yellow River Valley
Question #2
• Which of the following problems did the Chinese
ruler not have control over?
A) not able to stop invaders
B) raising taxes
C) having a corrupt government
D) earthquakes
Yellow River Valley
Question #3
• What landforms isolates China from other
civilizations?
A) rivers
B) rivers and seas
C) mountains and deserts
D) deserts
Yellow River Valley
Question #4
• Why is the Chinese language so complex?
A) It uses an alphabet
B) we can’t translate it
C) it has over 10,000 symbols
D) it uses numbers instead of letters
Yellow River Valley
Question #5
• Where is the Huang He River Civilization?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Yellow River Valley
Question #6
• What is a dynasty?
A) a religious group
B) a ruling family
C) a single ruler
D) my favorite TV show
Yellow River Valley
Question #7
• Chinese rulers who said that the gods chose
them to rule said they had the ______________.
A) Code of Hammurabi
B) Right of Rule
C) Mandate of Heaven
D) Right to Remain Silent