20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
What tool/weapon does Ned Land carry with him?
What is a harpoon?
Mesopotamia is Greek for "the land between two _____".
What are rivers?
Is "reading" an antonym or synonym for the word "literate"?
What is a synonym?
This is an academic term meaning "New Stone Age".
What is the Neolithic?
This is a large building project created to serve an entire community or remind them of someone/something.
What is monument?
A academic word for a god or goddess.
What is deity?
Sumerians often built ________ around their cities for protection?
What are "walls"?
What sound on the cuneiform would you use for the underlined part of the word?
Cities - (C-i-t-ie-s )
What is "S as in 'sit'"?
What lost city/continent did Professor Annarox and Capt. Nemo walk along under water?
What is Atlantis?
Mesopotamian beliefs were considered _________ because every city had their own god that they worshipped?
What is an adjective of literate?
What is "literacy" or "literary"
This is the relationship between the distances on a map and the actual distances in real life.
What is scale?
This is when a lot of life can grow whether its animals or plants.
What is fertile?
This means "the land between rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
The Sumerians are thought to be the first human ___________ in the world?
What is civilization?
What sound on the cuneiform would you use for the underlined part of the word?
Other - (o-th-e-r )
What is "u as in 'under'"?
or
What is "e as in 'left'"?
What attack's Captain Nemo as they are pearl hunting?
What is a shark?
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a long story what is largely considered one of the first pieces of ______ in the world.
What is literature?
If someone cannot read or write, then they are ________?
What is illiterate?
Something that is left behind by humans.
What is an artifact?
This was Mesopotamia's way of writing using wedge shapes and lines. It was often written in clay with a stick or reed.
What is cuneiform?
This is a state of human society that is very developed and organized. It usually has writing and organized government.
What is civilization?
This famous king came from teh city of Uruk. Archeologist don't actually know if he even existed or if he is just a legend.
Who was Gilgamesh?
What sound on the cuneiform would you use for the underlined part of the word?
Sumerian - (s-u-m-e-r-i-a-n )
What is "oo as in 'who'"?
Who attacked the Nautilus off the coast of the Papua New Guinea?
Who were cannibals?
A _______ in Mesopotamia could serve as a large building project created to honor the gods?
With is monument?
What is our Unit 3 vocabulary word which is a form of the word "literate"?
What is "literature"?
This is to change the natural/normal shape or size of something.
What is to distort?
Written works (such as poems, plays, and novels) that are considered to be very good and to have lasting importance.
What is literature?
A groups of different states or kingdoms that are ruled by one leader.
What is an empire?
Since Mesopotamia was a dry environment, they needed to dig large ditches to ______ their farm fields?
What is to irrigate?
What sound on the cuneiform would you use for the underlined part of the word?
probably - (p-r-o-b-a-b-l-y )
What is "a as in 'caught'"?
Where does the Nautilus run aground on the low tide?
Where is the Torres Straights?
Mesopotamian societies were able to produce more food than they needed because what little farming land they did have was very _______.
What is fertile?
A group of people which share a specific time, area, traditions, and/or way of life.
What is culture?
This is when a system of belief has more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
This is the process of planning and building structures. Cultures often have specific details for their times and locations.
What is architecture?
This was the name of the types of large temples built in the center of Sumerian cities?
What are ziggurats?
What sound on the cuneiform would you use for the underlined part of the word?
invention - (i-n-v-e-n-ti-o-n )
What is "SH as in 'shark'"?
What does Capt. Nemo give to the diver off the coast of Crete?
What is a chest of gold bars?
Cuneiform was name as such because of the ________ shapes that it appears to be written with?
What are "wedge"?
This word describes a line/direction that runs up and down.
What is vertical?
This is how society organizes itself based on status. Some people have more power than other people.
What is hierarchy?
This is an independent state consisting of a city and the area around it.
What is city-state?
What material did the Sumerians write their cuneiform in?
What was clay?
What sound on the cuneiform would you use for the underlined part of the word?
Patrick - (P-a-t-r-i-ck )
What is "CH as in 'cheese'"?