World History Quiz Bowl

Question 1

Mesopotamia is located between these rivers.

Accepted Answer

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 2

The Egyptian ideas of an afterlife came from the belief in a person's life force known as this.

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Ka

Question 3

The place where the Law of the Twelve Tables were kept that was the heart of the city of Rome.

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Roman Forum

Question 4

Legendary twin founders of Rome.

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Romulus and Remus

Question 5

The change from food gathering to food producing.

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Neolithic Revolution

Question 6

The common people of Rome.

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Plebeians

Question 7

Imaginary lines on the earth that go from the North Pole to the South Pole.

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Lines of Longitude

Question 8

"I forbid" in Latin.

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Veto

Question 9

The study of the earth's physical and cultural features.

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Geography

Question 10

A direction indicator on a map.

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Compass Rose

Question 11

Legendary Sumerian hero who was king of Uruk.

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Gilgamesh

Question 12

The Roman general who was appointed dictator for life who was later stabbed to death.

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Julius Ceasar

Question 13

The nobles of Roman society.

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Patricians

Question 14

The first Emperor of Rome.

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Augustus

Question 15

The Greek word for "between the rivers."

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Mesopotamia

Question 16

The study of the past.

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History

Question 17

Objects created and used by humans.

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Artifact

Question 18

A temple tower of the the Sumerians.

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Ziggurat

Question 19

Title used for the god kings of Egypt meaning "great house."

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Pharaoh

Question 20

The worship of many gods.

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Polytheism

Question 21

Part of a map that explains what the symbols on the map mean.

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Key

Question 22

A series of wars between the city of Carthage in North Africa and Rome.

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Punic Wars

Question 23

The two most powerful magistrates of ancient Rome.

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Consuls

Question 24

The first humans were from this continent.

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Africa

Question 25

The time before there was writing.

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Prehistory

Question 26

A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life in Mesopotamia.

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Hammurabi's Code

Question 27

Ancient Egypt's huge stone tombs with 4 triangle shaped sides that meet at a point on top.

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Pyramids

Question 28

Rich landowners of ancient Greece.

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Aristocrats

Question 29

"Lucy", an ancestor of humans, was an an example this.

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Hominid

Question 30

Imaginary line the circles the earth around its middle.

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Equator

Question 31

The last place settled by humans.

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South America

Question 32

A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.

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Mythology

Question 33

The way of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.

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Domestication

Question 34

The majority of the people of Egypt were these people.

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Farmer

Question 35

A series of rulers from the same family.

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Dynasty

Question 36

The place that was "Gift of the Nile."

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Egypt

Question 37

The first civilizations began in this type geographic feature.

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River Valley

Question 38

A system of government in which people rule themselves.

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Democracy

Question 39

Urban is another word for this.

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City

Question 40

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants.

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hunter-gatherers

Question 41

A way of supplying water to an area of land.

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Irrigation

World History Quiz Bowl

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World History Quiz Bowl

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