THIS IS JEOPARDY
With Your Host... Mrs. Sweeney!
Jeopardy Geography and the Fertile Crescent Rules were made to be broken Whoa, Let my people go! Terms People Leftovers 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500
A professional writer A 100
What is a scribe? A 100
A city that is also a separate independent state
What is a city state? A 200
Translated means “land between two rivers”
What is Mesopotamia? A 300
Belief in many gods A 400
What is polytheism? A 400
And organized set of laws
What is a code? A 500
Abraham left the Sumerian cities for this arid land
What is Canaan? B 100
This region was known as a sea faring people with a knack for telling stories of sea monsters! B 200
Who are the Phoenicians? B 200
A famine in Canaan forced the Israelites to this land B 300
What is Egypt? B 300
The Hanging Gardens were built here to honor the King’s wife
What is Babylonia? B 400
Israel and ________ were the two kingdoms established after King Solomon’s death
What is Judah? B 500
This is the Israelites holy book C 100
What is the Torah? C 100
God told this man to get his people and take them to leave Mesopotamia C 200
Who is Abraham? C 200
A famine spread forcing the Israelites to settle in this land
What is Egypt? C 300
DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager C 400
Israelites departure from Egypt C 400
What is the Exodus? C 400
The Israelites “code of law”
What are the Ten Commandments?
He developed a code that contained 282 laws ranging from trade to family.
Who is Hammarabi? D 100
He led his people to Canaan… the first time.
Who is Abraham? D 200
This King rebuilt the city of Babylonia D 300
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?
They were able to chart the paths of stars and measure the length of a year D 400
Who are the Chaldeans? D 400
This group developed a system of bureaucracy which helped shaped many civilizations
Who are the Persians? D 500
Eye for an Eye E 100
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Moses was given these by God
What are the 10 Commandments?
Discovered in 1947, they allow us to confirm the stories in the Torah
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Belief in one god E 400
What is monotheism? E 400
An organized list of laws and rules
What is a code? E 500
These help explain a peoples beliefs
What are myths? F 100
Groups of travelers F 200
What is a caravan? F 200
They lay in an open land that made them always on defense
Who are the Assyrians? F 300
Scribes combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines
What is cuneiform? F 400
22 symbols! F 500
What is the Phoenician alphabet? F 500
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