Stone Age Humans
Mesopotamia
The Sumerians
Gilgamesh
Potpourri
100
This was the most important discovery of the Early Stone Age
What is fire?
100
Mesopotamia is located in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
100
Sumer was made up of many different units, called these, with their own government,, traditions, and protective walls.
What are city-states?
100
This was Gilgamesh's job/occupation.
What is king?
100
Mixing blue and red makes this color.
What is purple?
200
Early humans constantly moved from place to place, and where called these.
What are nomads?
200
Mesopotamia is known as "the land between the rivers". These are the two rivers being referred to here.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
The Sumerians began digging ditches to bring water to their fields, also known as this.
What is irrigation?
200
Gilgamesh and his best friend fought this creature on their great adventure together.
What is a wood demon?
200
The term Paleolithic means this in Greek.
Old Stone
300
Farming is the Neolithic Age led to this, the development of different types of jobs.
What is specialization?
300
Mesopotamia was a great place to settle due to the 3 words starting with F that the rivers provided.
What are fertile soil (farmland), fish, and fresh water?
300
These people were skilled craftsmen, and created the first middle class in Mesopotamia.
What are artisans?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Who is Enkidu?
300
This was the largest bird to ever fly over North America.
What is the teratorn?
400
The Neolithic period ended around this year.
What is 4,000 B.C.?
400
Mesopotamia is sometimes called this, because of the shape of the land between the two rivers and the great soil that existed there.
What is the fertile crescent?
400
These Sumerians were experts in writing, and trained for about 12 years.
What are scribes?
400
Gilgamesh was this proportion of man and god.
What is 1/3 man and 2/3 god?
400
This is the absolute location of ORRJHS.
What is 41 degrees north by 70 degrees west.
500
The Stone Age ended when humans began to make tools and weapons from an alloy called Bronze, which was a mixture of these two metals.
What are copper and tin?
500
The two rivers of Mesopotamia empty into this larger body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
The Sumerians used a number system based on this number.
What is 60?
500
Gligamesh ruled over this city-state in Sumer.
What is Uruk?
500
The female stunt woman from L.A. 10,000 B.C. was this actress's stunt double.
Who is Catherine Zeta-Jones?
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