Super Jeopardy Geography Early Man and its Civilizations The Hellenistic (Greek) Era The Roman Empire ? Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500

$100 Question from Geography Where is the Nile River and the Nile River delta (triangle piece of land rich with nutrients)?

$100 Answer from Geography Egypt

$200 Question from Geography What is a peninsula?

$200 Answer from Geography A piece of land surrounded on three 3 sides by water (for example India or Italy)

$300 Question from Geography What is the other name for the Huang He River in China?

$300 Answer from Geography The Yellow River

$400 Question from Geography What is the main sea that surrounds Italy?

$400 Answer from Geography The Mediterranean Sea

$500 Question from Geography What are the names of the 2 major rivers that surrounded the area known as Mesopotamia?

$500 Answer from Geography The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

$100 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations On what continent according to scientists did the earliest men develop?

$100 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations Africa

$200 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations Which civilization gave us the written law code known as Hammurabi’s Code?

$200 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations The Babylonians

$300 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations During the Neolithic Era was man hunters or gatherers or farmers?

$300 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations Farmers (during the Paleolithic Era they were hunters and gatherers)

$400 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations What was the name of the major trading people found along the Fertile Crescent who is responsible for spreading the earliest civilizations across the world?

$400 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations The Phoenicians

$500 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations What is the name of the Aryan system of splitting up their people into various groups including the Brahmins and the Pariahs (the untouchables)?

$500 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations The Caste/Varna System

$100 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Who is the king of the gods according to the Greeks?

$100 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Zeus

$200 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

$200 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Homer

$300 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age The Battle of Marathon is found in what Greek war?

$300 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age The Persian War (Athens led the Greeks to victory over the Persians)

$400 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Who was the ruler during the Golden Age of Greece (between the Persian and Peloponnesian War)?

$400 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Pericles

$500 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Name the three types of Greek columns…

$500 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian

$100 Question from The Roman Empire What does the words “Pax Romana” mean?

$100 Answer from The Roman Empire Roman Peace

$200 Question from The Roman Empire A mercenary is a paid soldier – Why did the Roman government hire so many mercenaries towards the end of the empire?

$200 Answer from The Roman Empire Because no Roman citizen wanted to serve in the army

$300 Question from The Roman Empire Who fought in the Punic Wars?

$300 Answer from The Roman Empire Rome and Carthage

$400 Question from The Roman Empire What is the other name for the ruler known as Octavian (Rome’s 1 st emperor/imperator)?

$400 Answer from The Roman Empire Augustus Caesar

$500 Question from The Roman Empire What is the name of the series of laws made by the Romans to make the Patrician and Plebeian classes more equal?

$500 Answer from The Roman Empire The Twelve Tables

$100 Question from “?” Who rules a monarchy?

$100 Answer from “?” A king or queen

$200 Question from “?” What is a bureaucracy?

$200 Answer from “?” Divisions of government

$300 Question from “?” What is inflation?

$300 Answer from “?” When too much money is being printed so that its not worth anything while prices keep rising (it was one of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire)

$400 Question from “?” What is the name of the test you must take to get a government job that was started by the Chinese philosopher Confucius?

$400 Answer from “?” A civil service exam

$500 Question from “?” What’s the name of the Persian religion that gave us the idea of good and evil?

$500 Answer from “?” Zoroastrianism