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Bluff!A Game and Study Guide All In One!
Rules
• In turn, each team will be asked a question.• Team members who know the answer will
stand up.• The other team will select ONE person
standing up to answer the question.• If that person gives a correct answer, the
team will receive as many points as there are people standing up. If the answer is wrong, that many points will be subtracted.
Rules Continued
• Each team will select one scorekeeper.• If no one from the team stands up, the
other team will be awarded 5 points.• If you do not stand up, or if you would not
have if it was your team’s turn, then write the question and answer down to create your own study guide.
• A team may not call on the same person from the opposing team until they have called on all the other members of the opposing team.
Question #1
•What word means the belief in many gods?
Answer #1
•Polytheism
Question #2
•Why was the Fertile Crescent a good place for developing civilizations?
Answer #2
•The rivers created very rich farmland
Question #3
•What word means a story about gods that explains people’s beliefs?
Answer #3
•myth
Question #4
•Why was Babylon an important center of trade?
Answer #4
• Because it was located between cities to the south and north
Question #5
•What word means many territories and people who are controlled by one government?
Answer #5
•empire
Question #6
•Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?
Answer #6
•The Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Question #7
•Why did separate city-states develop in Sumer?
Answer #7
•Because the cities were separated by long distances
Question #8
What word means symbols for writing that represent sounds?
Answer #8
•alphabet
Question #9
•Why did Phoenicia become a thriving and wealthy region?
Answer #9
•Phoenicians sold valuable wood and purple dye to neighboring peoples.
Question #10
•How were the Israelites different in their religious beliefs than many other peoples at this time?
Answer #10
•They worshipped one god.
BLIND QUESTION
•A blind question is when players must commit to standing up before the question is asked.
Question #11
•What word means a group of traders traveling together?
•caravan
BLIND QUESTION #12
• Why was the Phoenician alphabet so important to people in the ancient world?
Answer
• It made it easier to learn to read and write.
Question #13
•What word means a time when people starve because there is so little food?
Answer #13
•famine
Question #14
•What was one of the major events in the history of the Israelites?
Answer #14
•The conquest of Canaan
Question #15
•What word means the belief in one god?
Answer #15
•monotheism
Question #16
•What is one of the main reasons why Hammurabi’s Code was significant?
Answer #16
•For the first time, laws were written down
Question #17
What word means professional writer?
Answer #17
• scribe
Question #18
Why did the Sumerians make their ziggurats with terraces, one on top of the other?
Answer #18
• They believed the gods could use it to descend to Earth.
Question #19
• What word means the area good for agriculture that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?
Answer #19
• Fertile Crescent
Question #20
• What was one military innovation of the Assyrians?
Answer #20
• Battering ram
Question #21
• What is the writing in Mesopotamia that combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines?
Answer #21
• cuneiform
Question #22
• Who developed the first alphabet?
Question #22
• The Phoenicians