General Middle East Facts I
Trade & Transportation in the Middle East - terms
Trade & Transportation in the Middle East
Warm-up Questions I
Questions from Reading Guide I
100
The the continents in which the Middle East lies.
What Europe, Africa, and Asia
100
Textiles.
What is cloth or fabric?
100
River Boat
What is - look at handout to see the visual?
100
Three inventions of the Sumerians.
What are: wheel, sailboat, first written language, frying pans, razors, cosmetic sets, shepherd's pipes, harps, kilns, bronze hand tools, plow seeder, and the first superhero, Gilgamesh?
100
The reason Bernstein proposed for why early man built a boat.
What is hunger?
200
The reason Europeans decided to call the area "The Middle East."
What is the geographical region that lies between Europe and distant parts of Asia (what they called the Far East)?
200
Lapis Lazuli.
What is a blue stone mined in Afghanistan, used for jewelry and inlay decoration?
200
Coracle.
What is - look at the visual handout
200
Mesopotamian word still in use today.
What is crocus or saffron?
200
The reason prehistoric man valued obsidian.
What is it was easily chipped into razor-sharp cutting tools adn weapons?
300
Five products traded in the Middle East during Ancient Times.
What are: wine, woven goods, textiles, metal work, glassware, salt, ceramics, wool rugs, dates, crystal, tea, saffron, jasmine, sandalwood, horses. lapdogs, lapis lazuli, camels, jade, almonds, il, chilies, mint, wool, amber, peacock geathers, gold, silver, silk, hemp, or cotton?
300
Bitumen
What is a natural tar like substance, which comes from petroleum, and is used for waterprofing?
300
Gulf Boat
What is - look at the handout
300
Type of government of Sumer.
What is a combination of democracy and monarchy?
300
The location for all the stone blades found in Mesopotamia.
What is Armenia?
400
The three main climate regions of the Middle East.
What are semiarid, arid, and Mediterranean?
400
Camelian.
What is a stone used to make jewelry and to decorate objects?
400
Five goods transported in Mesopotamia.
What are: grain, meat, fish, textiles, precious metals, wine, lapis lazuli, stone, wood, perals, carnelian, copper, ivory, reeds, logs, wool, bricks, or beer?
400
This was evidence Konfirst found that indicated increased dust in the environment
o a long period of drier weather in the Middle East around 4,200 years ago o The Red Sea and the Dead Sea had increased evaporation; o water levels dropped at Lake Van in Turkey o cores from marine sediments around that period
400
The current value of transporting a load of obsidian from Armenia to Mesopotamia.
What is $5,000 to $10,000?
500
The geographic location of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the area that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf?
500
Seven forms of transportion in Mesopotamia.
What are: foot, donkey, gulf boat, raft, coracle, river boat, and cart?
500
The drought which may have killed off the Sumerian language lasted this long.
200 to 300 years
500
The items advanced farming communities transported to Hunter and Gather Societies.
What are grain, farm animals, and basic manufactured items?
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