What is a professional writer and record keeper who is well-educated and attended school from ages 8 - 20. They were in the upper middle class?
100
Caravan
What is group of travelers?
100
The meaning of the prefix "ex-" in the following word list:
exhale, exhume, exit, expel, extract?
What is "to go out?"
From the Latin "exitus" from exire which means "to go out."
100
If you scribble something, or sign your name in cursive or script, or you are a scribe, you are doing what?
What is writing?
200
Covenant
What is a binding agreement with god.
200
Cuneiform
What is writing that was in pictures or symbols drawn with lines?
200
Bazaar
What is a marketplace?
200
What is the meaning of the prefix "mono-" in the following word list:
monorail, monologue, monotone, monocle, monopolize, monotheism?
Mono means "single or alone" from the Greek combining form "mono or monos."
"Combining form" means this word is not a stand-alone word - it has to be combined with another morpheme or word part.
200
I would not relish joining *a procession or single line of travelers* crossing an unforgiving desert, an impossible journey without camels. Replace the words in between the asterisk with one of your Mesopotamian unit vocabulary words.
What is a caravan or procession.
300
City-States
What is an area that governs themselves? Have their own ruler or king. Belief in their own gods.
300
Monotheism
What is belief in one gods?
300
Code
What is a list of laws for all to see and follow?
300
- My cat is polydactyl: he has 7 toes on each of his front feet.
- Triangles, squares, pentagons and hexagons are examples of polygons.
- Someone who is polylingual speaks more than one language.
What does the a combining form "poly" mean in the words polydactyl, polygon and polylingual?
This Greek combining word form "poly" means much or many.
Polydactyl = multiple toes or digits (more than 5)
A polygon has 3 or more straight sides.
Someone who is polylingual speaks more than one language.
300
Free-lancers generally find it's feast or famine—they have a boatload of assignments or not enough to draw a paycheck!
Yesterday two hundred people showed up at the fair, today only two dozen people showed up —it's either feast or famine.
Paraphrase the phrase "feast or famine" using synonyms.
What is an overabundance relative to a shortage?
What is too much or too few?
Famine is a form of the word famished which means "starvation."
400
Exile
What is a punishment that forces people to move to anther country?
400
Prophet
What is a religious leader?
400
Famine
What is a time of little food which can lead to starvation and death?
400
Among the best known prophets of the Old Testament were Daniel, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, and Moses. The Prophet, Muhammad, the founder of Islam. What is a prophet?
What is a person supposedly chosen to speaks for god?
500
Assyria
What is the empire that existed in 2500 B.C. that was famous for their great warriors?
500
Diaspora
What is a scattering of people?
500
Myths
What is story about gods that explains people's beliefs?
500
- The Greek morpheme dia- means "about, across."
A diameter is the measurement across a circle through the center.
- Speirein means "to scatter."
What part of speech is the word "Diaspora" in the following sentence?
Diaspora is any group that has been displaced or scattered outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily.
Diaspora is a noun.
500
The Latin morpheme cuneus means a wedge or wedge-shaped thing." In ancient Middle Eastern times, inscriptions in clay tablets were made with wedge-shaped writing tools.
French -forme means a shape.
This is what Mesopotamian writing is called.