I am the aspect of a civilization that includes examples like Gilgamesh, poetry, literature, pottery, and jewelry.
What is art?
100
The two rivers located in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
The hero that the first epic poem was written about
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
The wealthier someone was, the closer they lived to .....
What is the ziggurat?
200
People who moved from place to place following the food
What is a nomad?
200
I am the aspect of a civilization that includes examples like Hammurabi, kings, soldiers, laws, courts, judges and punishments.
What is government and military?
200
The name of the king that was the first to write his laws down
Who is Hammurabi?
200
A person who could read and write
What is a scribe?
200
List two inventions or contributions from Mesopotamia
What is the wheel, writing, irrigation, calendar, Base 60 ( any possible answers)
300
The system that brought water from the river to the crops
What is irrigation
300
I am the aspect of a civilization that includes examples like ziggurats, priests, gods and goddesses.
What is religion?
300
The number of times in a year that the rivers flooded?
What is once a year?
300
The type of government when one person rules that was used in Mesopotamia
What is a monarchy?
300
List two jobs of the king
What enforced laws, collected taxes, built temples, made sure irrigation systems worked, led the army ( any two will do)
400
A long poem typically about a hero
What is an epic?
400
I am the aspect of a civilization that includes breaking society up into different categories of people- like slaves, kings, government officials, scribes, merchants and traders.
What is class system or social structure?
400
2 geographic features of the area that allowed people to stay and survive there.
What are deserts for protection, mountains for protection and fresh water, Persian Gulf for trade and transportation, rivers for fresh water?
400
The following people fall into what social class: merchants, traders, brick makers, chariot makers, bakers....
What is the middle class.
400
How might someone move down in a social class?
What is committing a crime?
500
a city and its surrounding farmland
What is a city-state?
500
I am the aspect of a civilization that includes examples like cuneiform, ziggurats, irrigation, the wheel, the plow, Base 60, the calendar and the chariot.
What is technology?
500
The only people allowed inside a ziggurat.
Who are priests?
500
The saying that Hammurabi's Code of Law is known for
What is " an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth?"
500
The people in Mesopotamia believed in more than one god. What kind of religion is that?