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The excess of products traded by Mesopotamians across the Middle East.
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What is SURPLUS?
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Product traded by the Caananites to the Mesopotamians.
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What is PRECIOUS METALS (gold, silver, bronze, tin)?
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Rivers used as trade routes in Mesopotamia.
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What are the TIGRIS and the EUPHRATES?
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The four trade groups of Mesopotamia.
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What are PEASANTS, CRAFTSPEOPLE, MERCHANTS and SOLDIERS?
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Approximate year in which the wheel came to Mesopotamia.
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What is 3000 BCE?
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Material used by the Mesopotamians on which to write.
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What is WET CLAY?
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Type of writing using pictures to illustrate words.
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What are PICTOGRAMS?
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Writing which evolved from pictures to symbols illustrating sounds.
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What is CUNEIFORM?
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Length of time it took for pictograms to evolve into Cuneiform.
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What is APPROX years?
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Number of symbols in the Cuneiform “alphabet”.
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What is 700?
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Supreme Chief of the city and neighboring villages.
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Who is THE KING?
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Group including peasants, craftspeople and civil servants.
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What are FREE PEOPLE?
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Group made of Prisoners of War.
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What are SLAVES?
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Advisory Group to the leader of the State includes these three social groups.
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What are HIGH PRIESTS, ARMY COMMANDERS and POWERFUL MERCHANTS?
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Leader who wrote the first major legal codex.
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Who is HAMMURABI?
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Asserting authority and ensuring stability in the region.
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What are REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING LAWS?
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Punishment in which the guilty person is subject to the same offense they committed.
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What is the LAW OF RETALIATION (or “An Eye for an Eye”?
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Region over which Hammurabi reigned.
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What is BABYLON?
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Approximate year in which the code was written.
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What is 1800 BCE?
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Major Social Inequality present in the Code.
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What is PUNISHMENTS BEING MORE SEVERE THE POORER YOU WERE?
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Bringing food, jewelry or other valuables to the Gods.
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What is are OFFERINGS?
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Representative of the Gods on Earth.
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Who is THE KING?
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Multi-storeyed temples.
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What are ZIGGURATS?
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The oldest known formal religion.
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What is MESOPOTAMIAN RELIGION?
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Part of the city in which the temple was constructed?
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What is the HIGHER CITY?
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Social Status of the High Priests
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What are the ELITE?
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Final Jeopardy CATEGORY: MYTHOLOGY
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Mythological hero who may have been a real Mesopotamian king; subject of the first legend ever written down.
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Who is GILGAMESH?
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