Bluff! A Game and Study Guide All In One!

Rules In turn, each team will be asked a question. Team members who know the answer will stand up. The other team will select ONE person standing up to answer the question. If that person gives a correct answer, the team will receive as many points as there are people standing up. If the answer is wrong, that many points will be subtracted.

Rules Continued Each team will select one scorekeeper. If no one from the team stands up, the other team will be awarded 5 points. If you do not stand up, or if you would not have if it was your team’s turn, then write the question and answer down to create your own study guide. A team may not call on the same person from the opposing team until they have called on all the other members of the opposing team.

Question #1 What word means a system of writing that uses wedge-shaped symbols?

Answer #1 cuneiform

Question #2 Which of the ancient civilizations was polytheistic?

Answer #2 Egypt and Mesopotamia

Question #3 What is the process of bringing water to dry land?

Answer #3 irrigation

Question #4 What river(s) flooded in ancient times and resulted in fertile land good for growing crops?

Answer #4 Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris

Question #5 Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?

Answer #5 The Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question #6 In Mesopotamia they built temples for their gods called

Answer #6 Ziggurats

Question #7 Name two lasting inventions of the Mesopotamian Civilizations?

Answer #7 Wheel Writing Plow calendar

Question #8 What is the name of the river that is at the center of success for Ancient Egyptian civilizations?

Answer #8 Nile River

Question #9 What is agriculture?

Answer #9 farming and domesticating animals

Question #10 What is the name of the writing performed by the Ancient Egyptians?

Answer #10 Hieroglyphics

BLIND QUESTION A blind question is when players must commit to standing up before the question is asked.

Question #11 What do you call people who travel around without a permanent home?

nomads

BLIND QUESTION A blind question is when players must commit to standing up before the question is asked.

BLIND QUESTION #12 What is the name of the people that roamed the land searching for food?

Answer Hunter-gatherers

Question #13 What is the name of the people who learned to write in ancient civilizations?

Answer #13 scribes

Question #14 How many years apart is 1200 BCE from 100 CE?

Answer #

Question #15 The Ancient Egyptians wrote on

Answer #15 papyrus

Question #16 Rulers in Ancient Egypt were called

Answer #16 pharoahs

Question #17 What aspect of civilization is a set of beliefs and forms of worship?

Answer #17 religion

Question #18 What characteristic of a civilization involves the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.

Answer #18 technology

Question #19 What word(s) means the area good for agriculture that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?

Answer #19 Fertile Crescent

Question #20 What century is 1234 in?

Answer #20 13 th century

Question #21 What year would it be if you went back 500 years from 300 CE?

Answer # BCE

Question #22 Name 2 things that Ancient Egypt had in common with Mesopotamia.

Question #22 Writing Fertile land River flooding