3. placespeoplepotluck Egypt and Persia Social Studies Soup 100 pts 200 pts 400 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 300 pts 200 pts

4. Where did the first civilization occur?

5. Fertile Crescent

6. Which early civilization had the first carefully planned cities?

7. Harappan

8. What city was restored as the center of an empire 1000 years after being the center of another empire?

9. Babylon

10. What was the relationship between Egypt and Nubia during the period of the New Kingdom?

11. Egypt dominated the Nubians

12. What is the name of the fertile windblown soil that makes the Huang He river appear to be yellow?

13. Loess

14. What Chinese philosopher stressed social order, harmony and good government?

15. Confucius

16. Confucius believed it was necessary for society to be organized around five different what?

17. relationships

18. What Persian ruler was known for his skills as a government administrator and his military conquests?

19. Darius

20. What was Cyrus known for?

21. Toleration of religion and diversity

22. What type of government did Shi Huangdi form, where the ruler had complete power and used it in an arbitrary manor?

23. autocracy

24. What ruler had the famous code of laws?

25. Hammurabi

26. What form of writing uses pictures to stand for ideas?

27. pictographs

28. What is the belief in more than one god?

29. Polytheism

30. What did the Shang kings use to consult with their gods?

31. Oracle bones

32. Settlements in this valley were constructed of oven baked bricks.

33. Indus Valley

34. Which ruler is considered to be both a king and a god?

35. Pharoah

36. Belief in the divinity of the pharaoh made the Egyptian government this.

37. A theocracy

38. This was the location of Nebuchadnezzar’s hanging gardens.

39. Babylon

40. What was the main reason for the Egyptian empire’s decline?

41. Attacks from new and powerful enemies

42. What is a series of rulers who comes from one family?

43. Dynasty

44. This person restored the city of Babylon.

45. Nebuchadnezzar

46. This city became a major manufacturer of iron weapons and tools.

47. Meroe

48. This region was south of Egypt and connected them and the Mediterranean world with the interior of Africa and the Red Sea.

49. Nubia

50. Who used bridges, ladders, and tunnels in their militarysuccesses?

51. The Assyrians

52. What do Daoism and the concept of yin and yang focus on?

53. Natural order

54. Final Jeopardy

55. This was the Egyptian god who weighed the persons heart against a feather to see if the person would live an eternal afterlife.

56. Anubis or Osiris