© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Mark Russo & Mark Spiconardi PGP Ancient Civilizations

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Round 1 Round 2 Final Jeopardy

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Neolithic Age EgyptMesopota mia ChinaIndia $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Round 2 Final Jeopardy

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 It was the major development of the Neolithic Age.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is agriculture? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 It was the lifestyle humans left behind as a result of the Neolithic Age.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 It is the term for the complex societies that came about as a result of the Neolithic Age.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is civilization? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 These are three characteristics of a civilization.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are complex institutions, record keeping, cities, advanced technology, and/or specialized workers. Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 It is what the term “Neolithic Age” means.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 The river was Egyptian civilization established.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 It was the title used by the rulers of Egypt.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 It was the name of the writing system developed in ancient Egypt seen here:

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What are hieroglyphs? Scores

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$400 The famous stone sculpture shown below.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the Sphinx? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Found by the French, it was the key used to translate the Egyptian writing system.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 These are the two rivers of Mesopotamia.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 It is the name of the writing system that was developed in ancient Mesopotamia.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is cuneiform? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Historians have “eyed” this set of written law from Mesopotamia as one the earliest ever recorded.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is Hammurabi's Code? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Mesopotamia is located in this modern day country.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 It is the name of the first civilization to develop in Mesopotamia.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 These are two of the major rivers of ancient Chinese civilzation.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What are the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The type of metal that the ancient Chinese were skilled with.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Besides gods, the Chinese also worshipped them.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The Chinese referred to themselves as this two-word phrase.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 The first family of rulers to come to power in ancient China.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This river was the major river of ancient Indian civilization.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 It is the type of landmass that India is.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 The name of the Indian social hierarchy shown below.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is the caste system? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 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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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 These two cities give evidence of urban planning by the Indus people.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Ancient Religiou s Beliefs Name That Group of People More Egypt More Mesopota mia Ancient Geography $200 $400 $600 $800 $1000 Round 1 Final Jeopardy Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The term used to describe almost all ancient religious systems.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is polytheistic/animistic? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 During this ancient Egyptian preparation for the afterlife, the brain was removed through the nostrils.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 Food offerings made to the gods was a form of this. Mesoamericans preferred to offer children.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is sacrifice? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 It is the name of the large mud- brick & step-like structures that were built to honor Mesopotamian gods.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What are ziggurats? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The practice used by ancient Chinese rulers to communicate with the gods by reading bones.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 They developed the first lasting monotheistic religion.

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$400 They are an ancient Mesoamerican civilization known for constructing these large heads:

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Who are the Olmecs? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 These “carriers of civilization” developed an alphabet we use today and carried ideas throughout the Mediterranean.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 These people developed the Zoroastrian religion and were eventually conquered by Alexander the Great.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 This group of people moved into India, imposed a caste system, and laid the foundations for the Hindu religion.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The structures used as tombs for the rulers of Egypt.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 He is the famous “Boy King” of Egypt whose tomb was discovered over 80 years ago.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Who is Tutankhamen? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 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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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 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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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The Egyptian god of the Dead seen here:

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Who is Anubis? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The most well-known law that was included in the Mesopotamian code of laws.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out?” Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 One of the oldest stories in the world about a king dealing with the loss of his friend Enkidu.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the Epic of Gilgamesh? Scores

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$600 Derived from the Greek, Mesopotamia can be translated to mean this in English.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is the “land between two rivers?” Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 There were the group of people who were trained to read and write cuneiform.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 It was the most powerful city- state in Mesopotamia under the ruler Hammurabi.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is Babylon? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The type of region in which most of the first substantial civilizations formed.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are river valleys? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 It is the geographic feature that brought heavy rains to India each year.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 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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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 The term used to describe the fertile material that was deposited each year during annual floods.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 One of the two major mountain ranges that surround India.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Human Migration Final Jeopardy Question

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Considered on of the longest and largest movements of people, it took place in sub-Saharan Africa from approximately 3000 – 800 B.C.E.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is the Bantu migration?