Life in Sumer was full of what? (hint: they never really got along)
What is conflicts or quarrels?
100
Floods were also dangerous to farming. What is a danger of floods?
What is destroying villages?
100
Which group was the lowest class in Sumerian city-state class system?
What are slaves?
100
What bodies of water surround the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea?
100
Which professor used to play the flute?
Who is Ms. Zoelle?
200
What was the effect of the Ur-Nammu law code?
What is created a set of rules and consequences?
200
What is not a benefit of the Fertile Crescent?
a.) Carrying silt
b.) Washing fertile soil away
c.) Developing farming methods
d.) living on banks of the two rivers
What is washing fertile soil away?
200
What is the exception to Sumerian beliefs about gods? DAILY DOUBLE
What is the belief that the gods ate and drank?
200
Which professor's dad is a principal?
Who is Mr. Chapel?
200
Which professor went on a cruise and had the ship sink a week later?
Who is Ms. Thorimbert?
300
Hammurabi created a written set of laws as a way to make his gov’t strong. In this way, his purpose was to do what?
What is unify the people of the Babylonian Empire?
300
Which is not a challenge of farming in Mesopotamia?
a.) Tigris and Euphrates carries fertile soil from down the mountains
b.) Flood waters washed away soil and made farming difficult
c.) Floodwaters destroyed villages
d.) Beyond the rivers was an infertile desert
What is Tigris and Euphrates carries fertile soil from down the mountains
300
Why did many armies choose not to occupy a defeated city?
What is they might be unable to defend their own city?
300
Which professor was a reporter for a basketball website?
Who is Miss Bayoneta?
300
Which professor has fed a polar bear?
Who is Mr. Mireles?
400
Hammurabi’s code is important today because it does what?
What is helps historians understand life in Mesopotamia?
400
The innovation of the furrow was made more useful by having what?
What is hitching oxen to the plow?
400
Which culture did Hammurabi come from?
What is Amorite?
400
Who invented the wheel and sail?
Who are the Sumerians?
400
Cities grew because of trade, increased population, new technology, and what?
What is new farming methods bringing in a food surplus?
500
One of the benefits of farming and flooding is that silt was carried from the mountains through what two rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
Sumer's surplus was mainly due to what?
What is improved technology in farming?
500
Education in Sumer was what?
What is limited?
500
Which improvements for farming were developed by the Sumerians?
What is irrigation and plow?
500
Which professors have played Destiny?
Who are Mr. Chapel, Mr. Mireles, and Miss Bayoneta?