ATTACK! Review Game
WHAT TO DO: Draw a pyramid for your team on the board (everyone has to contribute and you have 3 min to draw). Be Brave! (no judging)
Once we begin, I will give you a review question Once we begin, I will give you a review question. Discuss the question with your team and come up with your best answer (don’t tell anyone).
I will randomly call on a team to give their answer I will randomly call on a team to give their answer. If that team gets it right, they can ATTACK and are to come to the board and put 1 ‘X’ on two different pyramids.
If, however, that team gets it wrong, I will ATTACK by putting 1 ‘X’ on their pyramid.
Once a castle has been attacked 3 times, it has been destroyed (erased).
The destroyed castle team must keep playing in order to ATTACK other castles to get revenge.
The team with the last castle standing is the winning team!
Ready? Let’s play…
Which Wonder of the Ancient World is the only one still standing?
Pyramid of Giza
2. Which Wonder of the Ancient World was located in Babylon?
The Hanging Gardens
3. Which Ancient Wonder of the World had a 40 foot tall statue of a Greek god created out of ivory?
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4. Which Wonder of the Ancient World is a tomb and was created in present day Bodrum, Turkey?
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
5. Which Ancient Wonder of the World inspired the Statue of Liberty?
The Colossus of Rhodes
6. Which Ancient wonder of the World has Ms. Dow visited?
Temple of Artemis
7. Which Ancient Wonder required a lot of irrigation?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
8. Which Ancient Wonder of the World can be found at Ephesus, Turkey?
The Temple of Artemis
9. Which Ancient Wonder of the World used the reflection of sunlight and fire as a signal?
The Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
10. Which Ancient Wonder of the World contains the tomb of Pharoh Kufu?
Pyramid of Giza
11. Which of the civilizations we studied can be found furthest South?
The Inca
12. Which of the civilizations we studied existed earliest?
The Maya
13. Which civilization lays claim to Machu Picchu?
The Inca
14. Which civilization lays claim to Teotihuacan?
The Aztec
15. Which civilization lays claim to Chichen Itza?
The Maya
16. Which civilization lays claim to Tulum?
The Maya
17. Which civilization is centered around Lake Texcoco?
The Aztec
18. What is Pok-a-tuk
Mayan ball game
19. What is a corbel?
Mayan false arch
20. Which Mayan calendar, the Tzolkin, Haab, or Long Count, has a 365 day solar year?
Haab
21. What are Quipus?
Inca record keeping
22. Who was the conquistador that conquered the Inca?
Francisco Pizarro
23. Who was Hiram Bingham?
American archaeologist that ’found’ Machu Picchu
24. What did the Aztecs call themselves?
Mexica
25. Which conquistador was responsible for overthrowing the Aztec?
Hernan Cortez
27. Which civilization had a concept of zero?
The Maya
28. Who was Dona Maria?
Translator and companion to Cortez
29. Which civilization should we associate with the language Nahuatl?
The Aztec
30. Which civilization used terracing for agriculture?
The Inca