1 / 26

JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1

JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1. Geography 100. The Egyptian civilization grew up around this river. What is the Nile River?. Geography 200. The name of this area in the Fertile Crescent means “between the rivers”. What is Mesopotamia?. Geography 300.

moe
Download Presentation

JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. JEOPARDY – River Valleys – Round 1

  2. Geography 100 The Egyptian civilization grew up around this river. What is the Nile River?

  3. Geography 200 The name of this area in the Fertile Crescent means “between the rivers” What is Mesopotamia?

  4. Geography 300 These two rivers form the backbone of the Fertile Crescent. What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

  5. Geography 400 The first Indian civilizations grew up around this river. What is the Indus River?

  6. Geography 500 The first Chinese civilizations emerged on this river What is the Huang He River?

  7. Mesopotamia 100 This building was the most prominent in any Mesopotamian city. What is a ziggurat?

  8. Mesopotamia 200 This invention made it easier for traders to travel and take cargo over a long distance. What is the wheel?

  9. Mesopotamia 300 These people were at the bottom of the Mesopotamian social hierarchy. Who are slaves?

  10. Mesopotamia 400 This king is best known for enforcing one of the first written law codes in history. Who is Hammurabi?

  11. Mesopotamia 500 Mesopotamians had this kind of government, in which the religious authority is also the government authority. What is theocracy?

  12. Egypt 100 These buildings were intended to be eternal tombs for dead pharaohs. What are the pyramids?

  13. Egypt 200 This characteristic of the Nile is why Upper Egypt is in the south. What is flowing south to north?

  14. Egypt 300 This geographic feature, a deposit of silt at the mouth of a river, is named after a Greek letter What is a delta?

  15. Egypt 400 This period of ancient Egyptian history is also called the Pyramid Age. What is the Old Kingdom?

  16. Egypt 500 These people invaded and conquered Egypt using their superior military technology. Who are the Hyksos?

  17. Indus 100 This is the religion of the Indus. What is polytheism?

  18. Indus 200 This was unique among the RVC and was not reproduced until Rome and then the 18th Century. What is indoor plumbing?

  19. Indus 300 In order to make things more organized people in the Indus did this. What are planned cities?

  20. Indus 400 This is why the Indus RVC finally fell. What is unknown?

  21. Indus 500 These were the two main cities along the Indus. What is Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro ?

  22. Huang He 100 This is the belief that gods give the king the authority to rule over the Chinese What is the Mandate of Heaven?

  23. Huang He 200 This is the first dynasty in China. Who are the Shang?

  24. Huang He 300 This rich fertile soil had a yellow color to it. What is loess?

  25. Huang He 400 This dynasty introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven. Who are the Zhou?

  26. Huang He 500 This was the nickname given to the Huang He river. What is China’s Sorrow?

More Related