EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
Jeopardy Review
Cultures of
Mesopotamia
100
200
300
400
500
Ancient
Egypt
Aegean
Culture
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
Prehistory
100
200
300
400
500

Cultures of Mesopotamia
100
Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk, was the leader of these people
Answer :
Sumerians

Cultures of Mesopotamia
200
Hammurabi was the leader of these people
Answer : Babylonians

Cultures of Mesopotamia
300
This was perhaps the most important development of the Sumerian Culture
Answer :
Cuneiform, first system of writing

Cultures of Mesopotamia
400
Here is where the
Sumerians thought gods would reveal themselves
Answer :
Ziggurat

Cultures of Mesopotamia
500
This group of people would be the last rulers of the great age of Mesopotamia, but they too would fall; conquered by the Medes and later the Persians
Answer :
The Assyrians

This book of spells and instruction was a guide for the afterlife
Answer : The Book of the Dead

This pharaoh was the first to unite upper and lower Egypt
Answer :
Narmer

He built the first step pyramid, commissioned by Zoser.
His name was __________ and he was later deified as the god of
____________ and _____________.
Answer :
Imhotep- god medicine and wisdom

The Egyptians were invaded by the Hyksos.
They introduced this new weapon
Answer
: Horse drawn carriage

This man made “King Tut” famous when he excavated his tomb
Answer :
Howard Carter

The Aegean Culture developed in this region
Answer :
Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea

This is the capital of the Minoan Empire
Answer :
Knossos

The King of the Minoan Empire
Answer :
King Minos

The Mycenaean Empire flourished here
Answer :
mainland Greece

This archaeologist, self financed the excavation of Knossos to prove his theories correct.
Answer :
Arthur Evans

Geography 100
Ancient Egypt was dependant on this
Answer :
The Nile River

Geography 200
This sea is located to the east of Egypt
Answer
: The Red Sea

Geography 300
DAILY
DOUBLE
These two rivers form the Fertile Crescent.
____________ to the East and ___________ to the West
Answer :
Tigris to the East and Euphrates to the West

Geography 400
The City of Knossos is located here
Answer :
The island of Crete

Geography 500
Sumerian communities were located here
Answer :
along the floodplain of the lower
Euphrates and Tigris rivers

Myths and Legends 100
Gilgamesh was in search of this
Answer :
everlasting life

Myths and Legends 200
_________ was responsible for the death of
Osiris and _______ put Osiris back together
Answer :
Seth , Isis

Myths and Legends 300
This great god of sky, often symbolized as a falcon, avenged the death of his father, Osiris.
Answer :
Horus

Myths and Legends 400
King Minos created one of these at his palace to house a minotaur
Answer :
labyrinth

Myths and Legends 500
King Aegean plunged to his death in the Aegean sea because he did not raise the white sail
Answer :
Theseus

Name, in order, the three “lithic” periods we discussed in class.
Answer
: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic

This specific type of homo sapiens made the first cave art.
Answer : CRO MAGNON

Name this famous piece.
One of many statuettes found, which emphasize the women’s practical rolethe source of birth and life
Answer : Venus of Willendorf

One would have to travel here to view giant heads called Moai
(give both name and location)
Answer : Easter Island, off the coast of Chile in
the South Pacific Ocean

a very large usually rough stone used in prehistoric cultures as a monument or building block
Answer : megalith