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?
Scribble, script, and scribe are all associated with WRITING.
100
Caravan
A caravan is a group of travelers?
100
Name 2 Phoenician inventions and describe their impact.
1. The sailboat which led to them trading along the Mediterranean Sea, and telling stories of Sea Monsters to discourage competition.
2. The alphabet of 22 consonants or letters, which led to our alphabet today.
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
Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing drawn with wedge-shaped tools on clay tablets. Cuneiform was pictures or symbols drawn with lines.
200
Bazaar
A bazaar is a marketplace
where people could buy and trade goods.
200
Name Babylon's most influential person.
King Hamurabi who not only built up, but expanded the city and contributed the Code of Laws. Hamurabi's code was based on "An eye for an eye..." and were put on display on a steale, which were monuments in the city center. His laws became correput because they were not applied equally to people of all social classes.
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
A city-state is an INDEPENDENT self-governing city. Have their own ruler or king. Belief in their own gods.
300
Monotheism
What is the belief in one god?
mono = one, or single. Monocle, monorail, monotone...
theism = belief in god or gods (or godess/godesses)
300
Code
What is an organized 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
Exile is a punishment that forces people TO LEAVE or MOVE to anther country.
exit, expel, exhale, extract and exhume also have to do with leaving or moving out.
400
Prophet
A prophet is religious leader.
400
Famine
Famine is a time of little food
That can lead to starvation and death?
Someone who claims to be "famished" might be very hungry. Feast or famine refers to there either being too much or not enough of something.
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?
A prophet is a person supposedly chosen to speaks for god.
400
Mosaic
A mosaic is art - specifically it is a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass.
500
Assyria
Assyria was an empire that existed in 2500 B.C. that was famous for their great warriors. In fact, they were geniuses at waging war. Their motto was: the bst defense is to attack. They invented the battering ram, had silled archers, slingers for rock slinging, armed chariots, and protective helmets and armor. They were polytheistic. King Sargon II, consistent with the warrior mentality, seized the throne by force. He expanded the Empire, built up Nineveh (city of learning with a fabulous library that had 1000s of clay tablets from Sumer and Babylon. He conquered cities and revolted against Assyria... which eventually weakened the military.
500
Diaspora
What is a scattering of people?
500
Myths
A myth is a story about GODS and GODDESSSES 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.