Today’s Review Topic: Early Civilizations This is Jeopardy!! Today’s Review Topic: Early Civilizations

Today’s Categories Are:

Early Civilizations

Culture & Government

Geography

Religions

Economy

JEOPARDY 100 200 300 400 500 Early Civilizations Culture & Government Geography Religions Economy 100 200 300 400 500 Double Jeopardy

All early civilizations developed around this kind of geographic feature. Click for Question

What are rivers? Back to Jeopardy Board

He developed the first written law code for the Mesopotamian civilization. Click for Question

Who is Hammurabi? Back to Jeopardy Board

These Indus river valley cities showed evidence of advanced urban planning such as underground sewage systems. Click for Question

What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro Back to Jeopardy Board

These are the 5 characteristics of “Civilization” Click for Question

What are: Specialized labor, government, organized religion, trade and recording methods (writing). Back to Jeopardy Board

The writing system of ancient Mesopotamia Click for Question

What is Cuneiform? Back to Jeopardy Board

This was the language of the ancient Hindus. Click for Question

What is Sanskrit? Back to Jeopardy Board

These two classes in India ran the government. Click for Question

What are the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas? Back to Jeopardy Board

This describes the type of government who’s leader is either a religious leader or believed to be a god. Click for Question

What is a theocracy? Back to Jeopardy Board

These are the occupational or job divisions within each Varna in Indian society. Click for Question

What are Castes or Jati? Back to Jeopardy Board

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This term refers to a government that controls many different peoples or nationalities. Ramses, the Gupta and Hammurabi all controlled one. Click for Question

What is an Empire? Back to Jeopardy Board

Because of all the essential food and resources the Egyptians got from their river, Egypt was given this nickname. Click for Question

What is “The Gift of the Nile?” Back to Jeopardy Board

The land between two rivers was between these two rivers. Click for Question

What are the Tigris and the Euphrates? Back to Jeopardy Board

These are “seasonal winds” that bring the dry and rainy seasons to India. Click for Question

What are monsoons? Back to Jeopardy Board

These two mountain ranges cut India off from contact with the rest of Asia, making it a “sub-continent.” Click for Question

What are the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush? Back to Jeopardy Board

The land of Mesopotamia was flat and this was great for planting crops, but describe 2 negative impacts this characteristic had on Mesopotamia. Click for Question

What are devastating floods and invasion. Back to Jeopardy Board

These structures were Mesopotamian temples. Click for Question

What are Ziggurats? Back to Jeopardy Board

These are the 3 major gods of Hinduism and the roles they perform Click for Question

Who are Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Siva the Destroyer? Back to Jeopardy Board

This term refers to the foundational promise between Abraham and God, it started the religion of Judaism. Click for Question

What is the Covenant? Back to Jeopardy Board

These are the holy books of Judaism and Hinduism respectively. Click for Question

What is the Torah, and the Vedas. Back to Jeopardy Board

This term refers to the scattering of the Jewish people from their promised land in Palestine by the Romans in 70 AD. Click for Question

What is the Diaspora? Back to Jeopardy Board

The process of trading goods and services for other goods and services is generally referred to as this. Click for Question

What is barter? Back to Jeopardy Board

This is the way a society uses its resources to meet its needs. Click for Question

What is an economy? Back to Jeopardy Board

In mostocivilizations this was first developed to keep track of goods offered at temples or exchanged in the marketplace. Click for Question

What is writing? Back to Jeopardy Board

When you grow more than enough food to meet your needs, you have this. Click for Question

What is a surplus? Back to Jeopardy Board

Besides agriculture, provide 3 specific reasons that Egypt could be called the “Gift of the Nile” Click for Question

What are papyrus products, transportation & trading, fishing, hunting etc. Back to Jeopardy Board

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