Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins
Mesopotamia:
The First Cities
Mesopotamia:
Vocabulary Knowledge
Origin Stories from Around the World
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What is Farming?
Growing plants that people can eat.
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What is one of the reasons why people started living in cities?
Because people were making, buying and selling things and it made things easier to live around other people.
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What word means to take care of an animal, child or plant from when they are very young.
To "raise", is to take care of an animal, child or plant from when they are very young.
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What is an origin story?
The story of how life began, unique to each country.
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What is the college that LeBron James played for before moving to the NBA?
LeBron James didn't play college basketball, he went straight from high school to the NBA.
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What is the actual meaning of the word Mesopotamia?
"The land between the rivers".
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What is the place where the Mesopotamian king lived? What was it like?
The palace. It was the nicest building in the city and had many beautiful things that people in the city had made.
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Who is a person that rules over a group of people, such as a king or emperor.
A "ruler" is is a person that rules over a group of people, such as a king or emperor.
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What is the animal that is very important to the Yami people?
The flying fish.
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What is the name of the civilization that believed that all people, both good and bad, became ghosts and were sent underground to eat dirt when they died?
What is the Mesopotamians.
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What are the names of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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What was made by the people in the cities?
They built buildings, made jewelry, baked bricks from clay and wrote things.
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What is it called when people move away from farms and into cities?
A "civilization" is when people move away from farms and into cities?
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What is the name of the daughter that was too beautiful to live in Japan, according to the origin story from Japan?.
Amaterasu.
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What is the name of the state that Barack Obama was born in?
Honolulu, Hawaii.
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What are the jobs that people did when they moved away from the farms and into the cities?
People became religious leaders, soldiers and store owners.
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What were the spiritual leaders in the cities called?
Priests.
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What is the showing love, belief and appreciation for a god.
The meaning of "worship" is to show love, belief and appreciation for a god.
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What was the bridge that Ymir and his brothers used to get to the heavens from earth?
A rainbow.
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What is one of the two parts of the world (continents) that Mesopotamia and the first civilizations of the world can be found in today?
The Middle East and Northern Africa, (Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran).
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What is the amount of years that has passed since people started moving from farms into the city?
6,000 years ago.
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What is Mesopotamia known as?
"The cradle of civilization".
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What word means to protect or defend a city, usually done by a soldier?
To "guard" is to protect or defend a city, usually done by a soldier.
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What is the animal that Magyar became when he left the heavens and went to the bottom of the sea?
A golden duck.
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What is the state that Teacher Courtney is from?
Montana, in the Northwestern part of the United States.