These are people who could read and write; they usually worked for the government or temples.
What is a scribe?
100
This means the weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
This is the name for a King of Babylonia, famous for his Code of Law.
What is Hammurabi?
100
This word means the watering of the land using canals and other elements.
What is irritation?
100
These are the two rivers that Mesopotamian civilization began by.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
This is a community of people living in permanent settlements, who have developed knowledge in farming, trade, government, art, law and science.
What is a civilization?
200
This is the time period (8000BC-5000BC) when people switched from hunting and gathering food to producing their own food by farming.
What is the Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)
200
This is a word to mean the worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
200
What was worth most? A shekel, talent or mina?
What is a talent?
60 shekels was one mina
60 minas was one talent.
The word "talent" in English to mean something you have comes from this word and the parable of the Talents in the bible.
200
This is a term for people who moved place to place in search of food, before agriculture and cities formed.
What is nomads/nomadic?
300
These are wedge shaped symbols, used to represent objects and ideas; the written language of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
300
This means government ruled by a religious leader.
What is theocracy?
300
This is a word for people who could see and interpret the signs of the gods. (they claimed)
What is an oracle?
300
Name 2 different uses for the wheel ( an invention of the Mesopotamians)
What is 1. wagons and chariots 2. pulleys to raise water 3.pottery wheels.
300
The Mesopotamians were the first to make items/tools out of this metal, maybe as early as 3000BC
What is bronze?
400
This refers to large cities, and their surrounding areas, with their own government.
What is a city-state
400
This is the Mesopotamian word for "kings"; they were also worshiped as gods.
What is a lugal/lugals?
400
This is the name for Mesopotamian temples built to house the gods when they came to visit earth.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The Mesopotamian number system was based on this number.
What is 60.
60 is a convenient number because it has many factors. Our number system is based on 10, probably because we have ten fingers.
400
Would you rather be treated by an ashipu or an asu? Why?
What is an asu (physician). An ashipu was more like a sorcerer using charms. An asu used basic medical treatments like cleaning and bandaging wounds and making casts.
500
This is a word for Farming, cultivating land, raising farm animals.
What is agriculture?
500
This is a name for the area in between two rivers; an area of rich agricultural land; an area where Mesopotamian civilization started.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
This word means to tame animals to live with humans and be used for farm work or food.
What is to domesticate (coming from the latin word for home; because we are making animals tame enough for the home)
500
This law is found both in the bible and in Hammurabi's code.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
500
Around what year BC was Hammurabi's code made? You have a 300 year margin of error.
What is around 1792BC *which is when Hammurabi ruled