Neolithic Revolution
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Geography
Documents
Final Jeopardy
100
The Neolithic Revolution started around this time approximately.
What is 10,000 BCE?
100
This term means wedge-shaped based on the writing system of Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
100
Egyptian writing is called this.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Scholarly Journal Articles, Magazines, Encyclopedias, Documentaries, and Newspapers are these types of sources.
What are secondary sources?
200
This era, where humans moved around from place to place, proceeded the Neolithic Revolution.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
200
This city-state was one of the first complex societies composed of small city-states in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
Ptah is this god.
What is the Egyptian god of craftsman?
200
Mesopotamia is this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
200
I loaded into her all that I had of gold and of living things, my family, my kin, the beast of the field both wild and tame, and all the craftsmen. ... I looked out at the weather and it was terrible, so I too boarded the boat and battened her down.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
After the Neolithic Revolution, this reason allowed people to specialize in different jobs.
What is due to a surplus of food; people could stop focusing on getting food for a living?
300
Three climate & geography factors made up Mesopotamia.
What are flat lands, little rain, and (unpredictable) violent floods?
300
Neper is this god.
What is the Egyptian god of grain?
300
This country is called this.
What is Egypt?
300
Birds are sacrificed to you,
gazelles are taken for you in the mountain,
pure flames are prepared for you.
What is Hymn to the Nile?
400
These are the two reasons people made pottery during the Neolithic Revolution.
What is to store food and for art?
400
These are the names of the two rivers that set the boundaries of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
400
This group was the largest in the ancient Egyptian social hierarchy.
What are farmers?
400
The name of the river #1 is called this.
What is the Tigris?
400
The exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about
the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong
should not harm the weak; so that I should ... enlighten the land, to further the well-being of
mankind.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
These three innovations during the Neolithic Revolution accompanied most societies' shift to agriculture.
What are tools, clothing, and shelter?
500
Gilgamesh was the king of this city-state.
What is Uruk?
500
Khnum is this god.
What is the Egyptian god of the source of the Nile?
500
The Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia.
What is Levant?
500
The 8th & 9th commandments resemble this EHS code.
What is the EHS Honor Code?
500
Name all 11 complex society characteristics.
1. Food Surplus 2. Job Specialization 3. Cities 4. Government & Law 5. Monumental Architecture 6. Religion 7. Record Keeping 8. Art 9. Trade 10. Social Hierarchy 11. Technology/Innovation