The Know-It-All Game

Choose Your Category!• Mesopotamia or Bust

• Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

• Indus River Valley

• Yellow River Valley

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #1

• What two rivers form Mesopotamia?

A) Indus and Ganges Rivers

B) Huang He and Yangtze Rivers

C) Nile and Amazon Rivers

D)Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #2

• The Sumerians built religious temples

called….

A) Ziggurats

B) Pyramids

C) Sarcophaguses

D) Shrines

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #3

• The Sumerians writing was known as…

A) hieroglyphics

B) ideograms

C) Sanskrit

D) cuneiform

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #4

• Which Mesopotamian created the first set

of written laws?

A) Hammurabi

B) Nebuchadnezzar

C) Sargon

D) Darius

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #5

• Under the Code of Hammurabi, if

someone kicked you in the shins what

could you do?

A) have them pay your doctor bill

B) kick them in the shins

C) kill that person

D) kick one of their family in the shins

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #6

• What could rich people do if they hurt

someone lower in rank under the Code of

Hammurabi?

A) Nothing, they would be hurt too

B) They could pay a fine instead

C) They were not punished

D) Leave town instead

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #7

• What type of religion was worshipped by

the peoples of Mesopotamia and Egypt?

A) Monotheistic

B) Polytheistic

C) Worshipped ancestors

D) Worshipped animals

Mesopotamia or Bust

Question #8

• Where is Mesopotamia?

A)

B)

C)

D)

You Win!!!!!!!

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #1

• Egypt is often called “the gift of the

_________”

A) Gods

B) Nile

C) Indus

D) Pyramids

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #2

• Where is Egypt?

A)

B)

C)

D)

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #3

• What is the name for Egyptian writing?

A) Cuneiform

B) Hieroglyphics

C) Sanskrit

D) Ideograms

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #4

• What were pyramids built for?

A) places for worship

B) religious ceremonies

C) burial of pharaohs

D) storage for grain

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #5

• What best describes the purpose of

mummification?

A) to be born into a new caste in the next life

B) to protect body from evil spirits

C) to worship your ancestors

D) to preserve your body for the afterlife

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #6

• What artifact helped modern historians

read hieroglyphics?

A) Rosetta Stone

B) Memphis Codex

C) the Da Vinci Code

D) College textbook

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #7

• The pyramids were built by _________.

A) paid farmers between harvests and slaves

B) slaves

C) Egyptian soldiers

D) paid workers from other countries

Egypt, The Gift of the Nile

Question #8

• How did the Egyptian people view their

pharaohs?

A) as just kings

B) as gods on earth

C) as human beings

D) as an elected rulers

Indus River Valley

Question #1

• How do we know that the early Indians

had pretty much equal social status?

A) Only the wealthy learned to read and write

B) The rulers were seen as gods on earth

C) The houses were all the same size

D) Merchants had larger houses than peasants

Indus River Valley

Question #2

• Where is the Indus River Civilization?

A)

B)

C)

D)

Indus River Valley

Question #3

• Which cities were in the Indus River

Valley?

A) Memphis and Giza

B) Mohenjo Daro and Harappa

C) Sumer and Bablyon

D) Anyang and Zhengzhou

Indus River Valley

Question #4

• Which one of these features did Indus River

Valley cities have?

A) Well-planned city blocks

B) Sewers

C) Houses made of clay bricks

D) All of the above

Indus River Valley

Question #5

• What mountain range kept India isolated

A) Himalayas

B) Rockies

C) Hindu Kush

D) both A and C

Indus River Valley

Question #6

• What is a monsoon?

A) a giant rainstorm

B) a type of boat

C) a seasonal wind that brings extreme rain

D) a water shortage

Indus River Valley

Question #7

• Why do we understand very little about the

Indus River Civilization before the Aryans?

A) They left no artifacts

B) They had no cities

C) We can’t read their writing

D) We can’t go to India today

Yellow River Valley

Question #1• Two rivers ran through China. One was the

Chang Jiang a.k.a. the Yangtze. The other was

the _________ a.k.a. the Yellow River.

A) Yangtze

B) Ganges

C) Huang He

D) Tigris

Yellow River Valley

Question #2

• Which of the following problems did the Chinese

ruler not have control over?

A) not able to stop invaders

B) raising taxes

C) having a corrupt government

D) earthquakes

Yellow River Valley

Question #3

• What landforms isolates China from other

civilizations?

A) rivers

B) rivers and seas

C) mountains and deserts

D) deserts

Yellow River Valley

Question #4

• Why is the Chinese language so complex?

A) It uses an alphabet

B) we can’t translate it

C) it has over 10,000 symbols

D) it uses numbers instead of letters

Yellow River Valley

Question #5

• Where is the Huang He River Civilization?

A)

B)

C)

D)

Yellow River Valley

Question #6

• What is a dynasty?

A) a religious group

B) a ruling family

C) a single ruler

D) my favorite TV show

Yellow River Valley

Question #7

• Chinese rulers who said that the gods chose

them to rule said they had the ______________.

A) Code of Hammurabi

B) Right of Rule

C) Mandate of Heaven

D) Right to Remain Silent