Civilization began here - known as the "cradle of civilization".
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The meaning of FERTILE cresecent.
What is the very good soil that is good for growing crops?
100
How people survived before farming.
What is following the herds around, hunting and gathering?
100
Considered one of the biggest first steps to the beginning of civilizations.
What is farming?
100
The name of the first civilization - it's not pronounced "summer".
What is Sumer?
200
Mesopotamia means....
What is the land bewteen 2 rivers?
200
Reson the region so "fertile"?
What is the rivers overflowing providing good soil?
200
How scientists learn about ancient peoples?
What is archeological artifacts?
200
One of the 3 theories of how farming started. OOOooppps I dropped some grain - oooh look it's growing there!
What is the Spilled Grain Theory of how farming started?
200
People who learned how to write - a special kob in ancient Mesopotamia city-states.
What is a scribe?
300
Name one of the 2 rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
(you have a 50/50 chance)
What is the Tigris river?
300
The 2 problems the farmers had at first in the Fertile Crescent region.
What is flooding and drought?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY YOU CAN WAGER UP TO 600
What is your wager? Go to next question in this row
300
One of the 3 theories of how farming started. Look at the animals they stay there beacuse food grows well there and there is water for them too....Maybe we should farm there too!
What is Watching The Animals Theory?
300
When villages become bigger they are called....
What is a city-state?
400
Name the other of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia. (you have a 50/50 chance unless you saw the other clue).
What is the Eurphrates river?
400
3 crops the famers grew in Mesopotamia.
What is barley, wheat, beans, fruit, vegetables, dates?
400
What the sumerian form of writing on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
400
One of the 3 theories of how farming started...This is a nice spot...Let's stay for a while....Ohh look how the wild wheat is growing...we could do that at our next spot.
What is the Move Em and Groove Em Theory?
400
The name of the temple where the God of each city-state lived.
What is Ziggurat?
500
The name of the modern day country that is presently in the area where ancient Mesopotamia was located.
What is Iraq?
500
What farmers did to help their crops.
What are levees,dams and canals?
500
4 things that Sumerians invented.
What are the wheel, writing, plough, calendar?
500
This happened when farmers eventually got really good at farming. (not many farmers needed)
What is the population increased and people could do other jobs?
500
The name of the largest most important city-state in Sumer.