What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Bonus (100 extra): Into what do the rivers empty?
100
A priest-king who was also considered a king and hero.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Bonus (100 extra): Why is this story important?
100
This contribution helped with farming.
What is irrigation or the plow?
100
What is the name for a Sumerian writer?
What is a scribe?
Bonus (100 extra): What are a scribe's responsibilities?
100
The kind of arrangement (in place in the city-states) that passes a king’s power from father to son.
What is hereditary?
200
Two ways, other than drink/bathe/food that the Mesopotamians used their rivers.
What are transportation/trade, irrigation, clay, punishment, and water clock?
200
These scientists examine objects left behind to understand human cultures.
What are archeologists?
Bonus (100 extra): What is an artifact?
200
This contribution helped with transportation.
What is the wheel or sailboat?
200
The name of Sumerian writing.
What is Cuneiform?
200
What the Mesopotamians did with their surplus.
What is they traded it.
Bonus (100 extra): During what "age" did Mesopotamia develop?
300
When people move from place to place, they are doing this.
What is migrating?
300
If a king ruled from 69 BCE to 12 CE, this is the length of his reign (# years).
What is 81 years?
300
This contribution helped created history.
What is writing?
Bonus (100 extra): What invention helped keep time?
300
They were the only ones who went to school to learn to read and write.
What are sons of the wealthy?
300
Two reasons why the ziggurat was important to city-states.
What are: Temple/Home of chief god
Center of city-state
School
Where trading took place
Where major events and celebrations took place
Where poor were fed
400
The modern day country in the area of Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
400
The period under his rule is considered the “Golden Age” of Babylonia.
Who is Hammurabi?
Bonus (100 extra): What were his accomplishments?
400
Two ways in which Hammurabi’s code is similar to ours.
What are the concepts of: innocent until proven guilty, judges and witnesses, fines and death penalty, and written laws that all must follow.
Bonus (100 extra): What is one difference?
400
These were used to symbolize someone's signature.
What are cylinder seals?
400
Describe two aspects of the religion in Mesopotamia.
What are: 3,000 gods and demons
Gods represented natural forces
Ziggurat is temple
Priest-kings ran government
Priests ran school
Gods dispensed justice
Red chased away evil
500
Two reasons why levees were built.
What are irrigation and flood control?
500
What was one of the rights of women in Sumer?
What is own property, run a business, own/sell slaves, be a witness in court?
Bonus (100 extra): What was their PRIMARY role?
500
Two of the mathematical concepts introduced by the Mesopotamians
(in addition to written numbers & counting)
What are 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 360 degrees in a circle, Area calculations
500
Another name for the Sumerian schools.
What are tablet houses?
Bonus (100 extra): Who ran the schools and where were they held?
500
Describe three parts of a city-state
What are: Walled city with surrounding farmland
Ziggurat at center of city
Different (location /type of) houses for different classes
City god
City government