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Red Fish

100

What does BCE stand for?

Before Common Era

200

"Sumerian city states flourished along the ______ and ______ rivers"

Euphrates and Tigris rivers

300

40 centuries before 1 BCE is which millenium?

The 4th millenium

400

What is the name of the oldest city?

-Ur

-Uruk

-Eridu

-Sumer

Eridu is the oldest Sumerian city

500

The oldest Sumerian city began around 5400 BCE, which millenium is this?

The 6th millenium

Blue Fish

100

What was the name of Mesopotamian writing system?

Cunieform

200

Which word is this definition defining?

"a waterway made by people, for the purpose of transportation or to carry/control water & irrigate farms"

-Irrigration?

-Farming river?

-Canal?

-Manmade waterway?

This is the definition for canal

300

What is the principal of the scribe school called?

"Father of the tablet-house"

400

Which approximate year did cuneiform begin?

4000 BCE

3000 BCE

3600 BCE

2000 BCE

3600 BCE

500

List 3 properties of complex early society ---

• An economy that produces food surpluses

• Large populations in cities

• Social classes

• Specialized occupations

• Systems of government, religion & education

• Achievements in technology, art & architecture

• Systems of record keeping (written or oral)

One Fish

100

What are 2 purposes of going to the ziggurat?

To worship and to ask the gods for help

200

Which of the following is not a temple job?

-Accountant

-King's Butler

-Scribe

-Maintenence

Maintenance is not a specified temple job

300

Which of the following is not an ancient Mesopotamian city-state?

-Akkadian 

-Assyrians

-Assyrids

-Babylonians

Assyrids is not the name of an ancient city-state

400

Name 2 agricultural inventions from the ancient Sumerians

Cultivation of wheats

Transition to an agricultural economy

Invention of irrigation

Inventor of beer

Breeding dogs

Animal husbandry

Improved plows

500

The ancient Mesopotamians wrote "The Epic of _________" and "__________'s Code"

The Epic of Gilgamesh and Hammurabi's Code

Two Fish

100

True or False: The ancient Mesopotamians had gods with specific skills

True

200

Why do the Mesopotamians hold a moon (Nanna) festival?

To bring the moon back when it disappears once a month from the sky

300

What is millennium and millennia?

Millennium is 1000 years, and millennia is multiple millennium

400

For 400 points, put yourself in the shoes of a historian. If you go to a Mesopotamian excavation site, what clues would you look for about their lives?

Answer in Class

500

What are the hallmarks of a city-state?

A city state...

Is its own small country

It has its own king (or other style of government) 

Does not belong to any bigger nation

Fish Sticks

100

True or False: There is someone in charge of punctuality in ancient scribe school

True

200

The primary source of a man recalling his scribe school experience was written in 2000 BCE. How many years ago was this?

4 thousand years ago

300

What was the name of the one King who conquered and tried to unite multiple Mesopotamian city-states?

Sargon the Great (of the Akkadian people)

400

For 400 points, please give a thoughtful summary of your favorite thing Mr. Gallagher covered with you this year in history.

Answer in Class

500

Why did the Sumerians initially invent writing, and how did it advance their society?

Writing began to better keep track of exchanges as the economy grew larger. It advanced their societies in many ways, what do you think...?