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MESOPOTAMIA JEOPARDY

MESOPOTAMIA JEOPARDY. MESOPOTAMIA Environment Culture Trade Leadership. Rules. One member of a team must answer the question with no help from other team members. No talking during other teams’ questions. Every person on the team must answer a question before any team member answers two.

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MESOPOTAMIA JEOPARDY

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  1. MESOPOTAMIAJEOPARDY • MESOPOTAMIA • Environment • Culture • Trade • Leadership

  2. Rules • One member of a team must answer the question with no help from other team members. • No talking during other teams’ questions. • Every person on the team must answer a question before any team member answers two. • Teams “steal” when another team fails to get the answers correct. • On a “steal” any member of the team may be chosen to answer the question.

  3. ENVIRONMENT CULTURE LEADERSHIP TRADE MIXED BAG $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 FINAL JEOPARDY

  4. NAME THE RIVERS THAT RUN THROUGH MESOPOTAMIA. TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES

  5. Is Mesopotamia a plain, a plateau or both? Explain. BOTH, A PLATEAU IN THE NORTH AND A PLAIN IN THE SOUTH

  6. EXPLAIN THREE DISADVANTAGES OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN PLAIN. MIGHT INCLUDE: DRY LAND, HOT SUMMERS, UNPREDICTABLE FLOODS, LITTLE RAIN

  7. HOW DID THE SUMERIANS BRING THE LAND TO LIFE? BY DEVELOPING AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM USING CANALS, GATES, AND DAMS. ALSO PRACTICING FLOOD CONTROL DIGGING POOLS AND PONDS

  8. HOW DID THE CREATION OF A SURPLUS OF GRAIN GIVE RISE TO CIVILIZATION? SURPLUS FREED SOME PEOPLE TO LIVE IN CITIES AND WORK AT JOBS OTHER THAN FARMING. IT ALSO ALLOWED FOR POPULATION GROWTH

  9. WHAT IS A CITY-STATE? A CITY AND ALL THE TERRITORY AROUND IT THAT IT CONTROLS

  10. NAME THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT GODS AND WHAT THEY REPRESENTED. AN, WHO RULED THE SKY, ENLIL THE GOD OF AIR, ENKI, WHO RULED THE WATER, AND NINHURSAG, THE MOTHER GODDESS

  11. DESCRIBE A TYPICAL CITY-STATE. NARROW WINDING STREETS, SMALL WINDOWLESS HOUSES CLOSELY PACKED, A THRIVING MARKETPLACE, A ZIGGURAT, OFTEN A ROYAL PALACE.

  12. SUMMARIZE THE STORY OF GILGAMESH IN SIX SENTENCES AS TOLD IN OUR TEXT. GILGAMESH WAS A KING AND ENKIDU A WILD MAN. HARIM IS SENT TO CHARM ENKIDU AND BRING HIM BACK TO THE CITY. SHE TAMES THE WILD MAN AND CIVILIZES HIM. ENKIDU IS SAD BECAUSE THE ANIMALS NO LONGER KNOW HIM. HE LEARNS MORE AT THE SHEPERD’S HUT. HE THEN GOES TO SEE GILGAMESH.

  13. WHO RULED THE EARLY CITY-STATES AND WHAT DID THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE? PRIESTS: THEY RAN THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM, STORED SURPLUS GRAIN, PRAYED AND MADE SACRIFICES

  14. NAME THREE ITEMS THAT SUMERIANS TRADED FOR. MIGHT INCLUDE: TOOLS, LUMBER, METALS

  15. WHICH OF THESE DO NOT BELONG? WHY? SESAME, WHEAT, YAMS, BARLEY YAMS, NOT A GRAIN

  16. BRONZE IS A MIXTURE OF WHICH TWO METALS? COPPER AND TIN

  17. WHO USES A STYLUS AND WHAT IS IT USED FOR? A SCRIBE FOR MARKING IN CLAY.

  18. EXPLAIN WHAT A BULLA IS AND HOW IT WAS USED. A FOOTBALL SHAPED CONTAINER THAT HOUSED TOKENS THAT KEPT TRACK OF TRADE.

  19. WHAT MATERIAL DID THE SUMERIANS USE TO BUILD THEIR HOMES? MUD BRICKS

  20. COMPLETE THE ANALOGY UR :NINEVAH AS SILVER SPRING: (MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, ROCKVILLE) ROCKVILLE

  21. WHAT IS AN EPIC? A POEM ABOUT A HERO

  22. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLYTHEISM AND MONOTHEISM? MONOTHEISM IS A BELIEF IN ONE GOD, POLYTHEISM IS THE BELIEF IN M ANY GODS.

  23. HOW DOES A CYLINDER SEAL WORK? A CYLINDER IS CARVED WITH PICTURES AND THEN WHEN ROLLED ON CLAY A THE PICTURE IS IMPRINTED

  24. FINAL JEOPARDY COMPARE AND CONTRAST PICTOGRAPHS AND CUNEIFORM PICTOGRAPHS STARTED AS PICTURES THAT STANDS FOR WORDS OR IDEAS AND LATER EXTENDED TO STAND FOR SYLLABLES RELATED BY SOUND. CUNEIFORM IS SIMPLIFIED PICTOGRAPHS THAT ARE WEDGE-SHAPED. THERE ARE 600 SYMBOLS THAT RANGE FROM ONE WEDGE TO 30 WEDGES.

  25. FINAL JEOPARDY SUMERIANS TRADE THINGS LIKE GRAIN AND WOOL FOR WOOD, STONE AND METALS. WHAT CAN YOU CONCLUDE ABOUT THE LANDS THAT SUMERIANS TRADED WITH? IF THE SUMERIANS TRADED FOR WOOD, STONE AND METALS THAT MUST MEAN THOSE PLACES HAD A SURPLUS OF THOSE MATERIALS. PEOPLE ONLY TRADE FORM A POSITION OF SURPLUS

  26. How should I study for this test? • Review outlines • Review study guides • Reread the lessons • Memorize the vocabulary

  27. WHO WAS SARGON? SARGON WAS THE LEADER OF AKKAD. THEY CONQUEREDTHE SUMERIAN CITY-STATES AND UNITED THEM TO FORM AN EMPIRE.

  28. WHAT WAS HAMMURABI’S CODE AND WHY WAS IT SO IMPORTANT? HAMMURABI’S CODE WAS A LIST OF LAWS THAT HE MADE PUBLIC BY INSCRIBEING IT ON A STONE SLAB AND DISPLAYING IT IN THE CITY. NO ONE COULD THEN BE PUNISHED BY A RULERS WHIM

  29. COMPARATIVELY, WHERE WERE BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA CENTERED IN MESOPOTAMIA AND NAME THEIR CAPITALS. ASSYRIA WAS CENTERED AT ASSUR IN THE NORTH. BABYLONIA WAS CENTERED AT BABYLON IN THE SOUTH.

  30. EXPLAIN WHY KINGS GAINED POWER OVER THE CITY-STATES. IN THE FACE OF THREATS SUCH AS RAIDING TRIBES AND RIVAL CITY-STATES, PEOPLE LOOKED FOR WAYS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. THEY CHOSE A TEMPORARY MILITARY LEADER WHO EVENTUALLY BECAME A FULL TIME RULER- AKING.

  31. NAME TWO ACHIEVEMENTS OF SHAMSHI-ADAD. HE TRIED TO MAINTAIN HIS EMPIRE BY INSTALLING HIS SONS AS KINGS IN CITY-STATES HE OVERTHREW. HE HELD HIS LANDS TOGETHER BY TRADE AS WELL AS FORCE.

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