Early Man Jeopardy Final Jeopardy $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 Fertile Crescent Mesopotamian Society Religion Sumerian Achievements Groups in Mesopotamia $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

1 - $100 Definition: “more than is needed” surplus

1 - $200 Definition: “human-made waterways” canals

1 - $300 What two factors made crops grow well in Mesopotamia? The farmland was fertile, and it was near a water source.

1 - $400 Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers? The Tigris and the Euphrates

1 - $500 Definition: “earthen walls along rivers or shorelines that hold back water” dikes

2 - $100 Definition: “legendary figure in Sumerian literature” Gilgamesh

2 - $200 Sargon was the first to establish one of these, a land with different territories and peoples under a single rule empires

2 - $300 Why did city-states fight one another? For control of farmland

2 - $400 Which Sumerian leader was said to be found floating down a river as a baby? Sargon

2 - $500 The city of Akkad, founded along the Euphrates River, was located in what modern day city? Baghdad

3 - $100 Definition: “the worship of many gods” polytheism

3 - $200 Who performed religious ceremonies in Sumer? priests

3 - $300 What was the center of the Sumerian city, dedicated to the gods? The ziggurat

3 - $400 What two factors determined a Sumerian’s rank or class? Wealth and occupation

3 - $500 Name the three groups of people that were ranked below priests in the Sumerian social hierarchy. Craftspeople, merchants, and traders

4 - $100 Definition: “a form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols” cuneiform

4 - $200 Definition: “the science of building” architecture

4 - $300 Who kept track of things people traded in Sumerian society? scribes

4 - $400 Definition: “picture symbols” pictographs

4 - $500 What is the name of the famous piece of art that was rolled over clay to leave an imprint? cylinder seals

5 - $100 What was the Phoenician’s greatest contribution to our world today? The alphabet

5 - $200 What popular resource did the Phoenician’s trade to build up their wealth? cedar wood

5 - $300 Nebuchadnezzar was responsible for constructing these in his palace: The Hanging Gardens

5 - $400 “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” Hammurabi’s Code

5 - $500 What did the Assyrian army use to knock down large city walls? Giant war machines

Final Jeopardy Enheduanna, the daughter of Sargon, wrote hymns to which goddess? Inanna