Geography
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Religion:
Misc:
Indus Valley Civilization:
100
The two major rivers of ancient Mesopotamia:
What are the Tigris & Euphrates?
100
Mesopotamia is also known as (2 possibilities):
What is the Fertile Crescent OR Cradle of Civilization?
100
Chapter 7 from the Epic of Gilgamesh describes this event:
What is a great flood?
100
An example of ancient Mesopotamian technology is:
What is division of time into units of 60, the wheel, plow, sail?
100
An example of a city-state from the Indus River Valley is:
What is Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro?
200
The major river of the other civilization we talked about during Unit 2 (NOT Mesopotamia):
What is the Indus River?
200
An example of a primary source (religion text) from Mesopotamian Civilization is (2 possibilities):
What is the Enuma Elish or Epic of Gilgamesh?
200
The Enuma Elish best describes this event:
What is the creation of the earth?
200
"Cuneiform" means:
What is "wedge-shaped"?
200
An example of monumental architecture from the Indus Valley Civilization is:
What is the Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro?
300
The earliest human civilizations were centered around this type of landform:
What is a river valley?
300
The example of law & government we talked about relating to Mesopotamian Civilization is:
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
300
In the Gilgamesh Epic, Utanapishtim is telling Gilgamesh about how he received what...
What is everlasting life?
300
This date is associated with the Code of Hammurabi:
What is 1750 B.C.
300
Describe one theory that historians say might explain the mysterious disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization:
What is the end of the Monsoon, Earthquakes that changed the course of rivers, or an invasion / conquest?
400
An example of a city-state from ancient Mesopotamia is:
What is Sumer, Ur, Babylon, Uruk?
400
An example of monumental architecture from ancient Mesopotamia would be:
What is a Ziggurat?
400
The oldest literature from human history comes from this region:
What is the Middle East (Mesopotamia)?
400
According to the Enuma Elish, Tiamat's tears made up these two geographic features:
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
400
Seals found in both Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization indicate what:
What is ... the two civilization traded / interacted?
500
Ancient Mesopotamia was in modern day (which nation?):
What is Iraq?
500
This date is associate with the peak of Mesopotamian Civilization:
What is 3100 B.C.
500
According to the Enuma Elish, this is how the earth was created:
What is ... the earth was created from the body parts of Marduk’s defeated arch-rival (his grandmother)?
500
According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, what was the name of the boat that Utanapishtim built to survive the great flood?
What is the Preserver of Life?
500
The Indus River Valley Civilization was in modern day (2 nations):
What is India & Pakistan?
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