PLACES TO PUT YOUR LUGGAGE!
THINGS TO DO ON YOUR WEEKEND
ACHIEVING ACHIEVEMENTS
FAMOUS PEOPLE AND THEIR HATS
MY SKY WIZARD IS BETTER THAN YOUR'S!
TAXES AND OTHER FUN GOVERNMENT THINGS
100
THIS IS THE NAME FOR THE AREA WHERE THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS/CITY-STATES BEGAN DUE TO RIVERS AND HEALTHY SOIL.
WHAT IS THE FERTILE CRESCENT?
100
UR, URUK, AKKAD, AND NINEVAH ARE EXAMPLES OF THIS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
WHAT ARE MESOPOTAMIAN CITIES?
100
THE DISCOVERY OF THIS PROCESS MADE TOOLS MORE EFFICIENT, AS THEY WERE NOW MADE FROM METAL INSTEAD OF STONE.
WHAT IS METALLURGY?
100
ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A KEY FEATURE OF A CIVILIZATION:
1. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 4. WRITING
2. GOVERNMENT 5. ECONOMY
3. JOB SPECIALIZATION
WHAT IS ECONOMY?
100
THIS TERM DESCRIBES THE BELIEF IN AND WORSHIP OF MANY GODS AND GODDESSES.
WHAT IS POLYTHEISM?
100
THE LAW CODE OF HAMMURABI TREATED YOU DIFFERENTLY BASED ON THIS.
WHAT IS SOCIAL CLASS?
200
THESE TWO RIVERS HELPED GIVE RISE TO MULTIPLE CITY-STATES IN MESOPOTAMIA
WHAT ARE THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES?
200
THIS ACHIEVEMENT STARTED BECAUSE EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN CITIZENS WANTED TO TRADE IN A BARTER ECONOMY, AND NEEDED A WAY TO TRACK GOODS AND SURPLUS ITEMS.
WHAT IS WRITING?
200
THE SUMERIANS INVENTED ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INVENTIONS EXCEPT:
1. WHEEL 3. PAPER
2. SAIL 4. PLOW
WHAT IS PAPER?
200
THIS KING WAS ABLE TO BUILD AN EMPIRE DUE TO HAVING A PERMENANT ARMY.
WHO WAS SARGON THE GREAT OF THE AKKADIAN EMPIRE?
200
POLYTHEISTIC RELIGIONS DEVELOPED TO EXPLAIN THIS.
WHAT ARE EXPLANATIONS FOR LIFE EVENTS OR THE NATURAL WORLD?
200
THIS COULD AFFECT HOW A LAW TREATED YOU IN A CIVILIZATION.
WHAT IS YOUR SOCIAL CLASS/STATUS?
300
THESE TWO GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES MADE MESOPOTAMIA A GOOD PLACE FOR AGRICULTURE TO DEVELOP.
WHAT IS FERTILE SOIL AND RIVERS?
300
THE INVENTION OF THE PLOW ALLOWED GREATER FOOD PRODUCTION, ALLOWING FOR THE GROWTH OF THIS.
WHAT IS GROWTH OF CITIES?
300
EXPANSION OF TRADE AND TRAVEL INCREASED IN MESOPOTAMIA BY ALL OF THE FOLLOWING EXCEPT :
1. WHEEL 3. PLOW
2. FIRE 4. SAIL
WHAT IS FIRE?
300
IRRIGATION ALLOWED FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THIS COMPONENT OF CIVILIZATION DUE TO A SURPLUS.
WHAT IS JOB SPECIALIZATION?
300
THESE WERE BUILT AS TEMPLES TO HONOR THE GODS AND GODDESSES.
WHAT IS A ZIGGURAT?
300
THIS IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN RECORDED LAW CODE.
WHAT IS THE CODE OF HAMMURABI?
400
THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES EMPTY INTO THIS COASTAL BODY OF WATER.
WHAT IS THE PERSIAN GULF?
400
THIS ACHIEVEMENT LED TO INCREASED RELAIBLE FOOD PRODUCTION AWAY FROM RIVERS.
WHAT IS IRRIGATION?
400
THE STORY OF GILGAMESH IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE EARLIES SUMERIAN EXAMPLE OF THIS.
WHAT IS AN EPIC/LITERATURE
400
THIS NEO-BABYLONIAN KING WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXILE OF THE JEWS FROM JERUSALEM, AND BUILDING THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON.
WHO IS NEBUCHADNEZZAR II?
400
THIS IS AN EARLY MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION, WHICH STATES THAT THE UNIVERSE IS IN A CONSTANT STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
WHAT IS ZOROASTRIANISM?
400
THIS TYPE OF GOVERNMENT IS CONTROLLED BY A KING WITH ABSOLUTE POWER (ABSOLUTE POWER MEANS THAT THE KING'S WORD IS LAW AND CANNOT BE CHALLENGED).
WHAT IS A MONARCHY?
500
PEOPLE STRUGGLED FOR CONTROL OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN REGION FOR THIS REASON.
WHAT IS PRODUCTION OF A STABLE FOOD SUPPLY/SURPLUS?
500
THIS ACCOMPLISHMENT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION IN MESOPOTAMIA, MAKING IT SO HUMANS NO LONGER NEEDED TO HUNT AND GATHER.
WHAT IS FARMING/AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTICATION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS?
500
THIS IS THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY OF A SCRIBE.
WHAT IS RECORD KEEPING AND TAX COLLECTION?
500
THE FERTILE CRESCENT THAT LIES BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS IS KNOWN FOR BEING THE FIRST SITE/LOCATION OF THIS.
WHAT ARE THE EARLIEST CENTERS/CITIES OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION?
500
THIS SOCIAL CLASS WAS IN CHARGE OF TAXES AND KEEPING RECORDS.
WHO ARE THE PRIESTS?
500
THIS PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE IS REPRESENTED IN THIS LAW CODE, "If a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, [then] his teeth shall be knocked out."
WHAT IS "AN EYE FOR AN EYE?"