mesopotamian jeopardy
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Mesopotamian Jeopardy . People. Places. Religion. Events. Words & Terms. 10pts. 10pts. 10pts. 10pts. 10pts. 20pts. 20pts. 20pts. 20pts. 20pts. 30pts. 30pts. 30pts. 30pts. 30pts. 40pts. 40pts. 40pts. 40pts. 40pts. 50pts. 50pts. 50pts. 50pts. 50pts. 10. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Scribes
People who could read and write that held positions of power for
keeping written records.
Monarch
Rulers of city states also called kings and queens.
Hammurabi
Babylonian king best known for his strict code of law.
Sargon I
First to have a permanent army that led him to become the world’s
first emperor.
Gilgamesh
King of Uruk known through Sumerian literature as a legendary
figure.
Iraq
Middle Eastern country where Mesopotamia was once located.
Fertile Crescent
A large arc of fertile farmland shaped like a crescent moon.
Mesopotamia
An area where progress occurred by people settling where crops could grow, population then grew, and
civilization was able to form.
Phoenicia
Well known powerful peoples who gained power due to trade since
their land wasn’t suitable for farming.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
The two land features that caused the Greeks to give Mesopotamia its
name.
The Gods
The Sumerians believed they possessed the characteristics of wanting to be worshipped and
pleased.
To honor the gods.
The most likely reason ziggurats were tall.
Ziggurat
A towering pyramid-shaped temple.
Polytheism
Belief in many gods and goddesses.
Priest
Served an important role in society where they intervened between the Sumerians and their Gods.
Cuneiform
The world’s first form of writing in which a stylus is used to make wedged shape symbols in clay.
City walls
To protect the cities the Sumerians began building between 3000 BC
and 4000 BC they built these.
Social Hierarchy
Divisions of the people by their rank or class in society.
Sumer
The first civilization to arise in Mesopotamia.
Canals
The altering of their environment in order to better survive by building
a series of these to divert flood waters.
Surplus
The word for – having 200 bushels of barley and your family only
needs 100.
City-state
A city and its surrounding land which was fought over for enough
farmland to survive.
Division of labor
Allowed workers to do other jobs due to inventions such as the plow that improved farming methods.
Assyrians
Cruel warriors with a well-organized standing army.
Cylinder Seals
Small stone cylinders engraved with designs for the main purpose of marking property (ownership.)