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Rich, good for growing.

What is fertile?

The exchange of goods and services.

What is barter?

A method of watering crops.

What is irrigation?

A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.

What is a city-state?

The ruling family of an empire.

What is a dynasty?

The practice of one person owning another person.

What is slavery?

A group of people who have a complex, organized society.

What is a civilization?

A professional writer.

What is a scribe?

Wedge-shaped writing formed in wet clay.

What is cuneiform?

A huge pyramid-shaped structure formed from a series of stacked rectangular platforms.

What was a ziggurat?

Name the occupation that best described the first Mesopotamians.

Who were farmers?

This was the reason why people settled in southern Mesopotamia.

What was the availability of plenty of fresh water?

Describe how the people of Mesopotamia made farming successful.

What was the result of using irrigation?

This technology was developed by the Mesopotamians.

What was a system of written language?

Describe how successful farming practices and food surpluses affected growth in Mesopotamia.

What was how improved farming techniques caused the population to grow, city-states to develop, some people left farming to perform other jobs, including trade, and trade enriched the culture and helped it spread to other parts of the world?

Name three physical structures that were found in the Sumerian civilization.

What were walls surrounding their city-state, ziggurats, and mud brick houses?

Name three ways the Sumerians advanced their civilization.

What were developing writing, religion, and technology?

Name the type of worship practiced by the Sumerians.

What was polytheism?

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

as practiced by the Sumerians. Define “divine kingship” as practiced by the Sumerians.

What was that the right to rule was god-given or that kings were chosen by the gods to carry out the gods’ wishes?

Describe how Sumerians believed the right to rule was continued.

What was that the right to rule was passed from father to son?

Describe the overall purpose of the Code of Hammurabi.

What was to protect the people?

Describe the main difference between the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures.

What was that the Assyrians placed a higher value on war and conquests?

Name the kingdom King David formed.

What was Israel?

This was why Solomon’s Temple was built.

What was to house the Torah?

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

Describe the effect that the Phoenicians’ trading had on the world.

What was that goods and ideas were spread?

Final Jeopardy Make your wager

Name one of the problems that Hammurabi faced and his decision.

What was ?