Midterm%20Jeopardy

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Midterm Jeopardy
Mesopotamia/ Early man
Egypt
China
India
Greece
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Final Jeopardy
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Mesopotamia -100

• ANSWER The word Mesopotamia literally means land
  between what to rivers?
• QUESTION What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

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Mesopotamia-200

• ANSWER The Babylonian King who codified harsh
  laws and punishments
• QUESTION Who was Hammurabi?

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Mesopotamia-300

• ANSWER The Phoenicians were the first to have
  a(n) _______________ based on phonetics.
• QUESTION What is an alphabet?

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Mesopotamia-400

• ANSWER An agricultural change where early man
  went from hunting and gathering to farming in
  permanent settlements.
• QUESTION What is the Neolithic Revolution?

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Mesopotamia - 500

• ANSWER The Persian religion that gave the idea
  that life is a struggle of good versus evil and
  influenced Judaism and Christianity with the idea
  of Heaven and Hell
• QUESTION What is Zoroastrianism?

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Egypt -100

• ANSWER The river of Egypt that flooded annually
• QUESTION What is the Nile River?

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Egypt - 200

• ANSWER The reed like plant that grows on the
  banks of they Nile, used to make paper like
  material to write on.
• QUESTION Where is papyrus?

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Egypt-300

• ANSWER Two things the Pyramids were used for.
• QUESTION What is to protect the mummy, store
  their belongings for the afterlife and to be a
  monument to them.?

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Egypt - 400

• ANSWER The type of government where the head of
  the government is also the head of the religion
  and the title given by the Egyptians.
• QUESTION What is a theocracy and Pharaoh?

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Egypt - 500

• ANSWER When one culture joins or teachers
  another culture something though force or though
  peace over time.
• QUESTION What is Cultural Diffusion?

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China-100

• ANSWER The river that flows in the North of
  China that provides food but is called both the
  Cradle of Chinese Civilization but also Chinas
  Sorrow.
• QUESTION What is the Yellow River?

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China - 200

• ANSWER A network of trade routes that crossed
  China to Europe where goods, ideas, cultures and
  diseases would travel.
• QUESTION What is the Silk Road

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China - 300

• ANSWER Chinas first Emperor, head of the Qin
  Dynasty. Was known for his unification of China
  and this most ambitious building project.
• QUESTION Who was Qin Shi Huangdi?

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China - 400

• ANSWER The dynasty that ruled the Golden Age of
  China and made these 2 accomplishments.
• QUESTION What was the Han Dynasty, and was
  paper, porcelain, fireworks, soccer, ice cream?

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China - 500

• ANSWER Power given to Chinese rulers by the gods
  and reasons for losing it.
• QUESTION What was the Mandate of Heaven, and
  what are bad circumstances such as natural
  disasters, famine, poverty, and war.

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India-100

• ANSWER The mountains that separate India from
  China are the tallest in the world.
• QUESTION What are the Himalaya Mountains?

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India - 200

• ANSWER The invaders who came through the Hindu
  Kush Mountains, and the route they used to get
  through.
• QUESTION Who are the Aryans, and what is the
  Khyber Pass?

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India - 300

• ANSWER The release from samsara (reincarnation)
  and ultimate goal of Buddhism.
• QUESTION What is Nirvana.

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India - 400

• ANSWER This man, once feared, converted and
  spread Buddhism to China through missionaries
  along this trade route.
• QUESTION Who was Asoka, and what was the Silk
  Road?

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India - 500

• ANSWER The levels of the Hindu Social Caste
  System.
• QUESTION What are Brahmans (priests), Kshatryas
  (warriors and government officials), Vaysas
  (skilled workers), Sudras (unskilled laborers),
  and Pariahs (untouchables).

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Greece-100

• ANSWER The City State of Greece that is credited
  as being the birthplace of Democracy.
• QUESTION What is Athens?

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Greece - 200

• ANSWER The first Athenian tyrant, who was
  credited with giving Athens its law code, his
  name later became synonymous with harsh rule and
  punishments.
• QUESTION Who was Draco

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Greece - 300

• ANSWER The battle fought by Spartans to delay
  the land invasion of this Persian king, who was
  seeking retribution for his fathers defeat 10
  years earlier.
• QUESTION What was the Battle of Thermopylae and
  who was King Xerxes

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Greece - 400

• ANSWER Name one Philosopher and their
  accomplishment
• QUESTION Who were
• -Socrates- Socratic method
• -Plato- recorded teachings of Socrates and wrote
  The Republic
• -Aristotle- founded the Lyceum and tutored
  Alexander the Great

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Greece - 500

• ANSWER The series of wars fought by these two
  protection alliances that weakened Greece enough
  that it could be conquered by Philip II of
  Macedonia.
• QUESTION What was the Delian League/Peloponnesian
  League

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FINAL JEOPARDY

• ANSWER The Correct Ordering of Athenian
  Government AND who would rule in each case.
• QUESTION Monarchy rule by 1, Aristocracy
  Rule by the rich few, Tyranny rule by 1
  military leader and Democracy or rule by the many