2. THIS IS
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3. With
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Mrs. Sweeney!

4. Jeopardy
Geography and the Fertile Crescent
Rules were made to be broken
Whoa, Let my people go!
Terms
People
Leftovers
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5. A professional writer
A 100

6. What is a scribe?
A 100

7. A city that is also a separate independent state

8. What is a city state?
A 200

9. Translated means “land between two rivers”

10. What is Mesopotamia?
A 300

11. Belief in many gods
A 400

12. What is polytheism?
A 400

13. And organized set of laws

14. What is a code?
A 500

15. Abraham left the Sumerian cities for this arid land

16. What is Canaan?
B 100

17. This region was known as a sea faring people with a knack for telling stories of sea monsters!
B 200

18. Who are the Phoenicians?
B 200

19. A famine in Canaan forced the Israelites to this land
B 300

20. What is Egypt?
B 300

21. The Hanging Gardens were built here to honor the King’s wife

22. What is Babylonia?
B 400

23. Israel and ________ were the two kingdoms established after King Solomon’s death

24. What is Judah?
B 500

25. This is the Israelites holy book
C 100

26. What is the Torah?
C 100

27. God told this man to get his people and take them to leave Mesopotamia
C 200

28. Who is Abraham?
C 200

29. A famine spread forcing the Israelites to settle in this land

30. What is Egypt?
C 300

31. DAILY DOUBLE
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C 400

32. Israelites departure from Egypt
C 400

33. What is the Exodus?
C 400

34. The Israelites “code of law”

35. What are the Ten Commandments?

36. He developed a code that contained 282 laws ranging from trade to family.

37. Who is Hammarabi?
D 100

38. He led his people to Canaan… the first time.

39. Who is Abraham?
D 200

40. This King rebuilt the city of Babylonia
D 300

41. Who is King Nebuchadnezzar II?

42. They were able to chart the paths of stars and
measure the length of a year
D 400

43. Who are the Chaldeans?
D 400

44. This group developed a system of bureaucracy which helped shaped many civilizations

45. Who are the Persians?
D 500

46. Eye for an Eye
E 100

47. What is Hammurabi's Code?

48. Moses was given these by God

49. What are the 10 Commandments?

50. Discovered in 1947, they allow us to confirm the stories in the Torah

51. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

52. Belief in one god
E 400

53. What is monotheism?
E 400

54. An organized list of laws and rules

55. What is a code?
E 500

56. These help explain a peoples beliefs

57. What are myths?
F 100

58. Groups of travelers
F 200

59. What is a caravan?
F 200

60. They lay in an open land that made them always on defense

61. Who are the Assyrians?
F 300

62. Scribes combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines

63. What is cuneiform?
F 400

64. 22 symbols!
F 500

65. What is the Phoenician alphabet?
F 500

66. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Entertainment
Please record your wager.
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67. Click on screen to continue
Same geographical area, all monotheistic, share the same prophets and same moral points
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68. What do Judaism, Christianity and Islam have in common?
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