2. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Mark Russo & Mark Spiconardi 2008-2009 PGP Ancient Civilizations

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. © 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.

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

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

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

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

14. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is new stone age? Scores

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

16. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Scores What is the Nile River?

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

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

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

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

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22. $400 The famous stone sculpture shown below.

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

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

25. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is the Rosetta Stone? Scores

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Iraq? Scores

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

35. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Scores What is Sumer?

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

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

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

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

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

41. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What are their ancestors? Scores

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

43. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the “Middle Kingdom?” Scores

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

45. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Who are the Xia? Scores

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

47. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is the Indus River? Scores

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

49. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is a peninsula? Scores

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

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

52. © 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.”

53. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is cotton? Scores

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

55. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What are Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa? Scores

56. © 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

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

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

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

60. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is mummification? Scores

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

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

63. © 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.

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

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

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

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

68. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Who are the Hebrews? Scores

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70. $400 They are an ancient Mesoamerican civilization known for constructing these large heads:

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

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

73. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 Who are the Phoenicians? Scores

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

75. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 Who are the Persians? Scores

76. © 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.

77. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Who are the Aryans? Scores

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

79. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are the pyramids? Scores

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

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

82. © 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.

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

84. © 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.

85. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 Who is Cleopatra (VII)? Scores

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

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

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

89. © 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

90. © 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.

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

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93. $600 Derived from the Greek, Mesopotamia can be translated to mean this in English.

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

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

96. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 Who are the scribes? Scores

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

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

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

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

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

102. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are monsoons? Scores

103. © 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.

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

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

106. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is silt? Scores

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

108. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What are the Himalaya and the Ghats Mountains? Scores

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

110. © 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.

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