One of the first civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia is called what?
What is Sumeria?
100
These two rivers are the location of the tip of Sumeria. Name these two rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
An amount that is left over after the need has been met
What is surplus
100
This type of punctuation is needed when using exact words from a source.
What are quotation marks.
100
What is the name of the calendar commonly used in the united states?
What is a Gregorian Calendar
200
In Mesopotamia flooded rivers were filled with this____ or small particles of soil?
What is Silt?
200
Sumeria had 3 city-states/ What are their names?
What Ur Kish and Erech
200
When a group of people serve more than one god they are considered to be what?
What is polytheistic.
200
This is the definition of plagiarism.
What is using information without giving credit to the source.
200
a person who studies human culture and how it develops over time
What is an Anthropologist
300
Where is Mesopotamia located?
What is now Iraq or Middle east, western asia?
300
Explain how Sumerians were able to keep record of their lives and their history?
What is "Writing". This allowed them to share information and pass on their ides to later generations.
300
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
What is irrigation
300
Name two consequences of plagiarism.
What is failing a course, having to re-write a paper, getting a zero, getting fired from a job, facing legal action, etc. Answers may vary.
300
Lines of latitude go in which direction according to the compass rose
What is East to West?
400
According to the article that we read in class, what are 3 of the different time periods in Mesopotamian history?
What is The Iron age, Neolithic age, Copper age, Bronze age, and Classic age?
400
These prisim like structures had temples or holy places of worship at the top. What is the name f this building?
What is a ziggurat
400
A person who copies or writes out documents. One who records history is called what? What important things might he record?
What is a scribe (answers will vary)
400
List two ways to avoid plagiarism.
What is quoting, paraphrasing, including a works cited, citing your source, etc.
400
The name for the historian that studies fossils to learn what the world was like long ago
What is Paleontology?
500
Ancient writing during this time was called what and had how many signs?
What is cuneiform? What is 600 signs?
500
Sumeria's social class is broken down into 3 different aspects. Name the 3 groups and give a brief description of each class?
What is Noble, merchant/artisian, peasant
500
A long poem that records the deeds o a legendary or real hero
What is an epic
500
Jane is a college student taking many classes. She procrastinated when it came to her final research project. She copied and pasted articles that she read offline to a word document. She turned in the project and was expelled.
LIST 3 THINGS JANE DID WRONG? WHY?
What is (answers will vary).
500
lines of longitude go in which direction according to the compass rose.