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Mesopotamia Jeopardy Terms 100 200 300 400 500 Peop le 100 200 300 400 500 Firsts 100 200 300 400 500 Daily life 100 200 300 400 500 Prehistory/ archaeology 100 200 300 400 500

Mesopotamia Jeopardy Terms 100 200 300 400 500 People 100 200 300 400 500 Firsts 100 200 300 400 500 Daily life 100 200 300 400 500 Prehistory/ archaeology

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Terms for 100

• These two rivers bordered Mesopotamia.

• What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

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Terms for 200

• The term to describe extra goods or products.

• What is surplus?

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• Prehistory refers to the time period before THIS invention.

• What is writing?

Prehistoric cave paintings from Lascaux.

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Terms for 400

• The modern day country in which Mesopotamia existed.

• What is Iraq?

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Terms for 500

• A term for the length of a king or queen’s rule.

• What is reign?

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People for 100• He is the subject of history’s first

recorded story.

• Who is Gilgamesh?

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People for 200

• The name for the first group of people to walk upright.

• Who is homo erectus?

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People for 300

• He created and ruled the first empire.

• Who is Sargon I?

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People for 400

• He reorganized taxes in Mesopotamia and created a housing system for the poor.

• Who is Hammurabi?

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People for 500

• These people attended school in Mesopotamia.

• Who are wealthy boys?

Mesopotamians did NOT ride school busses.

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Firsts for 100

• The term for watering crops using canals from a source like a river.

• What is irrigation?

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Firsts for 200

• The name of the Mesopotamian alphabet.

• What is cuneiform?

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• The Mesopotamian number system used this number as a base.

• What is 60?

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• Two ways in which Hammurabi’s code is similar to ours.

• innocent until proven guilty

• judges and witnesses

• fines

• death penalty

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Firsts for 500• 2 ways Mesopotamian number system is

used today.

• 60 minutes in an hour

• 60 seconds in a minute

• 360 degrees in a circle

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Daily life for 100

• What is the word for a Mesopotamian writer?

• Scribe

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• Why did Mesopotamians first invent a writing system?

• Keep trade records or business deals

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• 2 jobs of the members of the Mesopotamian upper class.

• Who are priests and merchants?

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Daily Life for 400• This is where the Mesopotamians fed

the poor.

• At (or near) the ziggurat

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Daily Life for 500Describe two aspects of the religion in

Mesopotamia.

• 3,000 gods and demons• Gods represented natural forces• Ziggurat is temple• Priest-kings ran government • Red chased away evil• Humans served gods

Statue of a man praying

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P &A for 100

• The term for a man-made object

• What is an artifact?

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• A ten-year period.

• What is a decade?

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• This was invented in the Neolithic Revolution.

• Farming and herding

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3 steps in excavating a site.

• Grid area

• Excavate while sifting dirt

• Measure artifact depth

• Record artifact info on map and describe

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P &A for 500

• 4 effects of the Neolithic Revolution.

– Population grew

– villages

– specialization

– writing

– government