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FinalJeopardy

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Daily Doubles

Jeopardy Instructions• On your turn, you will come to the computer with a

partner from your team.• Select a category by clicking on the dollar amount.• When the question appears, read it aloud.• You and your partner will have 30 seconds to answer

the question.• After you have answered, click on the screen and read

the correct answer aloud.• If your answer is correct, your team will have that

dollar amount added to their score. If incorrect, the dollar amount will be subtracted from the score.

• Click on the Game Board button to go back to the board.

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Daily Doubles• If a “Daily Double” screen comes up when you

select your question, you may choose how much the question will be worth.

• The value you choose cannot be more than your team has currently earned.

• If your team has a negative balance, you may wager up to $500.

• If you get the question correct, you will have the amount you selected added to your score.

• If you get the question incorrect, the amount you selected will be subtracted from your score.

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Geography

Accomplishme

nts

Rulers Vocabulary Mesopotamian Mix

Politics and

Religion

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Final Jeopardy

Scores

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The meaning of the word “Mesopotamia”

Geography

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What is “the land between two rivers”?

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The natural obstacles which led the

Phoenicians to use the sea for trade

Geography

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What are mountains to the east and north?

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The capital of Assyria

Geography

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What is Nineveh?

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A large arc of fertile farmland

Geography

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What is the Fertile Crescent?

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A mix of rich soil and small rocks

Geography

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What is silt?

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Two great leaders who built up Babylon

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Who are Hammurabi and

Nebuchadnezzar?

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The most important contribution of the

Phoenicians

Accomplishments

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What is the alphabet?

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Technology used by the Hittites

and Assyrians in battle

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What are iron weapons and chariots?

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The Sumerian plow is most like this modern-

day technology.

Accomplishments

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What is a tractor?

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A form of writing using wedge-shaped

symbols

Accomplishments

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What is cuneiform?

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He was among the first leaders to have a

permanent army

Rulers

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Who was Sargon I?

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Legendary king in Sumerian literature

Rulers

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Who was Gilgamesh?

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The first group to rule after Hammurabi

Rulers

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Who were the Hittites?

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Group of people who grew more powerful due to trade rather

than winning battles

Rulers

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Who were the Phoenicians?

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People who developed the world’s first

civilization in Mesopotamia

Rulers

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Who were the Sumerians?

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Long poems that tell the story of a hero

Vocabulary

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What are epics?

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Name given to ancient writers

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What is a scribe?

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The worship of many gods

Vocabulary

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What is polytheism?

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The science of building

Vocabulary

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What is architecture?

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This allowed some people to farm and others to become

craftsmen

Vocabulary

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What is division of labor?

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Sumerian class made of farmers and

laborers

Mesopotamian Mix

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What was the working class?

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The reason for the success of the

Assyrians

Mesopotamian Mix

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What was a strong army?

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The RESOURCE the Phoenicians were well-

known for

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What is cedar wood?

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The center of Sumerian cities

Mesopotamian Mix

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What are temples?

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The most important

contribution of the Lydians

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What are coins?

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The political unit of Carthage

Politics & Religion

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What is a colony?

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A city and its surrounding countryside

Politics & Religion

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What is a city-state?

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The basis of the Mesopotamian society

Politics & Religion

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What is agriculture?

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The most likely reason that the ziggurats

were tall

Politics & Religion

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What is to honor the gods?

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According to Sumerians, this was the cause of a good

harvest or a terrible flood

Politics & Religion

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What were the gods?

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Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy Instructions• After seeing the category, your team must decide

whether to wager $50, $100, or $200 per person on the Final Jeopardy question.

• Each person will answer the question individually on their own sheet of paper.

• After 30 seconds, papers will be collected and tallied.

• For each correct answer, the team will receive the amount that they selected.

• For each incorrect answer, the team will lose the selected amount of money.

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Connections to the 21st Century

Final Jeopardy Question

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The present-day location of Ancient

Babylon

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What is Baghdad, Iraq?

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