OGHS 8th Grade 1st 9 Weeks

What was the greatest achievement of the Phoenicians?

Which river was NOT an important feature of ancient Mesopotamia?

What did farmers have to give to the pharaoh as taxes in Ancient Egypt?

Reincarnation means that you are reborn.

In Egyptian religion, who is the god of the pharaohs?

What is an early ancestor to humans referred to as?

What are religious writings from the Aryans known as?

What was the most important development of the early Stone Age?

What was the most important language of Ancient India?

What was the location of India’s first civilization?

What did the Egyptians develop to help a body from decomposing quickly?

Inoculation is injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help them build up defenses to a disease.

India is referred to as a  __________________ because of its size.

What was the southern region of Egypt called?

What was the northern region of Egypt called?

What was able to translate the Egyptian writing system?

What was a key development in human development?

What was the world’s first writing system?

Who was the first woman to rule Kush?

What is the largest religion in India today?

What divided Indian society into groups based on birth, wealth, or occupation?

What is the study of the stars and planets?

What was the name of the Egyptian writing system?

Which Egyptian queen established trading relationships with people of Asia Minor and Greece?

What was a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life?

Every living person today lives in this hominid group.

In Egyptian religion, who is the sun god?

What Indian invention do we still use today?

What is the name of the principles that are the heart of Buddhism?

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants,seeds, fruits and nuts are what?

Early people believed in gods and goddesses associated with what?

Who became Babylon’s greatest monarch in 1792 BC?

Who was the strongest of all the Mauryan emperors?

Who broke the peace between the Sumerians and Akkadians in 2300 BC by seeking to extend into the Akkadian territory?

Who is known as the first female writer in history?

What name did Siddhartha Gautama go by after he found enlightenment under the tree?

Who developed the world’s first civilization?