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GeographyImportant People Vocabulary Vocabulary 2 Achievements Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final JeopardyJeopardy

$100 Question from Geography This river allowed civilizations to develop in the Fertile Crescent.

$100 Answer from Geography What is the Tigris and Euphrates?

$200 Question from Geography What are three ways people of the Fertile Crescent used the Tigris and Euphrates?

$200 Answer from Geography What is food, water, transportation?

$300 Question from Geography Greek historians called this area “land between the two rivers”.

$300 Answer from Geography What is Mesopotamia?

$400 Question from Geography DOUBLE JEOPARDY The Tigris and Euphrates flow into this body of water.

$400 Answer from Geography What is the Persian Gulf?

$500 Question from Geography Mesopotamia is now called what modern day country.

$500 Answer from Geography What is Iraq?

$100 Question from Important People He was an Akkadian ruler. He is known for building the world’s first empire.

$100 Answer from Important People Who is Sargon?

$200 Question from Important People He was a Babylonian king, who was the first to codify Laws of the Babylonian empire.

$200 Answer from Category 2 Who is Hammurabi?

$300 Question from Important People He was emperor of the Persian Empire. He worked to unify the empire.

$300 Answer from Important People Who is Emperor Darius?

$400 Question from Important People He was the founder of Zorastrianism.

$400 Answer from Important People Who is Zoroaster?

$500 Question from Improtant People He was the first great ruler of the Persian Empire

$500 Answer from Important Ruler Who is Cyrus the Great?

$100 Question from Vocabulary DOUBLE JEOPARDY The belief in more than one God.

$100 Answer from Vocabulary What is polytheism?

$200 Question from Vocabulary An economy based on exchanging goods and services for other goods and services.

$200 Answer from Vocabulary What is a barter economy?

$300 Question from Vocabulary A social structure that ranks people in a society.

$300 Answer from Vocabulary What is hierarchy?

$400 Question from Vocabulary A governor appointed to a province in the Persian Empire.

$400 Answer from Vocabulary What is satrap?

$500 Question from Vocabulary Explain the difference between criminal and civil law.

$500 Answer from Category 3 Civil law dealt with individual and private rights and criminal dealt with acts of crime.

$100 Question from Vocabulary This area of land arcs from the Mediterranean Coast to the Persian Gulf.

$100 Answer from Vocabulary What is the Fertile Crescent?

$200 Question from Vocabulary 2 DOUBLE JEOPARDY An economy in which money is used to buy goods or services.

$200 Answer from Vocabulary 2 What is a money economy?

$300 Question from Vocabulary 2 To arrange or set down laws that apply to an entire area under a government.

$300 Answer from Vocabulary 2 What is to codify?

$400 Question from Vocabulary 2 Temples built to worship Sumerian gods/goddesses

$400 Answer from Vocabulary 2 What is a ziggurat?

$500 Question from Vocabulary 2 A writing system created by Sumerians. It used lines and wedges

$500 Answer from Vocabulary 2 What is cuneiform?

$100 Question from Achievements This set of laws, which were codified by Hammurabi was the first of its kind in history.

$100 Answer from Achievements What is the Code of Hammurabi?

$200 Question from Achievements This group was the first to learn how to extract iron from ore.

$200 Answer from Achievements Who are the Hittites?

$300 Question from Achievements What group created the world’s first alphabet.

$300 Answer from Achievements Who are the Phoenicians?

$400 Question from Achievements Name three ways Emperor Darius unified the Persian Empire.

$400 Answer from Achievements What is building roads, encouraging a money economy, creating provinces, and encouraging Zoroastrianism.

$500 Question from Category 5 DOUBLE JEOPARDY Explain how the Phoenician alphabet had a major impact on the ancient world.

$500 Answer from Achievements What is it allowed for easier communication among cultures of the ancient world.

Final Jeopardy Provide 5 differences and 5 similarities between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent.

Final Jeopardy Answer Answers may vary.