THE GAME

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Sumerians 100 Why were Ziggurats significant in Sumerian society? Answer

Sumerians 200 What were Sumerian myths? Answer

Sumerians 300 Even though cities in Sumer shared a common culture and language they were not united under a single ruler. How did Sumerian government work? Answer

Sumerians 400 What were the significance of scribes in Sumerian society? Answer

Sumerians 500 The city of Sumer was located in Mesopotamia. What drew people to this area and allowed people to flourish as a civilization? Answer

Babylonians 100 Who was the Babylonian king that united the Babylonian Empire and developed a system of laws? Answer

Babylonians 200 Why was Hammurabi’s Code so important? Answer

Babylonians 300 How does the expression “an eye for an eye” help us to describe Hammurabi’s Code? Answer

Babylonians 400 What role did social class have on the punishments defined under Hammurabi’s Code? Answer

Babylonians 500 How did the Babylonians acquire much of their wealth? Answer

Judaism 100 What is monotheism? Answer

Judaism 200 Why did the Israelites leave Canaan and travel to Egypt? Answer

Judaism 300 What link exists between the Jewish faith, the Christian religion, and Islam? Answer

Judaism 400 What was the Diaspora? Answer

Judaism 500 What was the sacred text of the Israelites called? Answer

Phoenicians 100 Why were the purple snails significant to Phoenician culture? Answer

Phoenicians 200 What is the significance of the Phoenician alphabet? Answer

Phoenicians 300 How did the Phoenicians monopolize trade in the Atlantic? Answer

Phoenicians 400 Where did the Phoenicians primarily settle? Answer

Phoenicians 500 How did the Phoenicians alphabet differ from cuneiform? Answer

Vocabulary 100 What is the belief in more than one god? Answer

Vocabulary 200 Where did trade primarily happen in the Babylonian empire? Answer

Vocabulary 300 What was it called with the Assyrians sent the Jews to the far reaches of their empire Answer

Vocabulary 400 What warfare invention was a product of the Assyrians and featured a wooden beam mounted on wheels? Answer

Vocabulary 500 What was the early wedge and line shaped system of writing called? Answer

Sumerians 100 Answers The Ziggurats were believed to be a set of stairs that the gods would descend to come down to Earth

Sumerians 200 Answers Myths are stories about the gods that helped to explain people’s beliefs

Sumerians 300 Answers In Sumeria each city remained a politically independent city-state. A city state is a city that is also a separate, independent state. Each city had its own special god, or goddess, its own government, its own army, and its own king.

Sumerians 400 Answers Scribes were professional writers. They were significant because they kept records for kings and priests and allowed history to be recorded.

Sumerians 500 Answers Mesopotamia was located between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. These rivers would annually flood and deposit rich nutrients and minerals in the soil. This made the Fertile Crescent area a place where agriculture was able to develop.

Babylonians 100 Answers Hammurabi was the Babylonian king that created the Babylonian Empire

Babylonians 200 Answers Hammurabi’s Code was important because it was written down. This allowed everyone to know the laws and to know the punishments. These are also important because they are the earliest recorded laws that we have discovered.

Babylonians 300 Answers The expression roughly means that whatever you do to me I will do back to you. This was the idea that the code was based around. In other words, the punishment should fit the crime

Babylonians 400 Answers Social class was an important factor to consider when your punishment was being determined. The higher your social class the less severe your punishment should be. If you were a member of a lower social class your punishment could be very severe

Babylonians 500 Answers The Babylonians acquired much of their wealth through trading. Babylon was a crossroads of trade because of its location, though this also made it a target to be attacked.

Judaism 100 Answers Monotheism is the belief in only one god

Judaism 200 Answers The Israelites fled Canaan and moved to Egypt because of the severe lack of food. This is something that is referred to as a famine

Judaism 300 Answers All three of these religions originated in the same are, they are all monotheistic, and they all share similar moral beliefs and share common ideas

Judaism 400 Answers The Diaspora was the scattering of the Jews across the Middle East area.

Judaism 500 Answers The sacred text of the Israelites is called the Torah

Phoenicians 100 Answers The purple snails produced a vibrant purple dye. This allowed the Phoenicians to produce a dye that was valuable and they were able to trade this and get wealthy.

Phoenicians 200 Answers The Phoenician alphabet was far easier to learn than cuneiform. This allowed writing to be done by more people and helped to simplify trade among different people

Phoenicians 300 Answers The Phoenicians invented stories of sea monsters in the Atlantic and used these stories in order to create a monopoly of trade.

Phoenicians 400 Answers The Phoenicians primarily settled on the coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea

Phoenicians 500 Answers The Phoenician alphabet had only 22 characters as compared to the thousands found in cuneiform. The Phoenician alphabet was also accessible to individuals and not just to the scribes.

Vocabulary 100 Answers This is polytheism and was a staple of early Middle Eastern religion

Vocabulary 200 Answers Items like cotton cloth from India and spices from Egypt could be traded in Babylonian bazaars

Vocabulary 300 Answers Vocabulary 300 Answers When the Assyrians forced the Israelites to live in another place or country they were being exiled

Vocabulary 400 Answers The Assyrians invented the battering ram

Vocabulary 500 Answers When the scribes combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines this was known as cuneiform