Mesopotamia Jeopardy Terms People Firsts Daily life Prehistory/ archaeology

Terms for 100 These two rivers bordered Mesopotamia. What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

Terms for 200 The term to describe extra goods or products. What is surplus?

Terms for 300 Prehistory refers to the time period before THIS invention. What is writing? Prehistoric cave paintings from Lascaux.

Terms for 400 The modern day country in which Mesopotamia existed. What is Iraq?

Terms for 500 A term for the length of a king or queen’s rule. What is reign?

People for 100 He is the subject of history’s first recorded story. Who is Gilgamesh?

People for 200 The name for the first group of people to walk upright. Who is homo erectus?

People for 300 He created and ruled the first empire. Who is Sargon I?

People for 400 He reorganized taxes in Mesopotamia and created a housing system for the poor. Who is Hammurabi?

People for 500 These people attended school in Mesopotamia. Who are wealthy boys? Mesopotamians did NOT ride school busses.

Firsts for 100 The term for watering crops using canals from a source like a river. What is irrigation?

Firsts for 200 The name of the Mesopotamian alphabet. What is cuneiform?

Firsts for 300 The Mesopotamian number system used this number as a base. What is 60?

Firsts for 400 Two ways in which Hammurabi’s code is similar to ours. innocent until proven guilty judges and witnesses fines death penalty

Firsts for ways Mesopotamian number system is used today. 60 minutes in an hour 60 seconds in a minute 360 degrees in a circle

Daily life for 100 What is the word for a Mesopotamian writer? Scribe

Daily life for 200 Why did Mesopotamians first invent a writing system? Keep trade records or business deals

Daily Life for jobs of the members of the Mesopotamian upper class. Who are priests and merchants?

Daily Life for 400 This is where the Mesopotamians fed the poor. At (or near) the ziggurat

Daily Life for 500 Describe two aspects of the religion in Mesopotamia. 3,000 gods and demons Gods represented natural forces Ziggurat is temple Priest-kings ran government Red chased away evil Humans served gods Statue of a man praying

P &A for 100 The term for a man-made object What is an artifact?

P &A for 200 A ten-year period. What is a decade?

P &A for 300 This was invented in the Neolithic Revolution. Farming and herding

P &A for steps in excavating a site. Grid area Excavate while sifting dirt Measure artifact depth Record artifact info on map and describe

P &A for effects of the Neolithic Revolution. –Population grew –villages –specialization –writing –government