2. Instructions for using this template. Remember this is Jeopardy, so where I have written “Answer” this is the prompt the students will see, and where I have “Question” should be the student’s response. To enter your questions and answers, click once on the text on the slide, then highlight and just type over what’s there to replace it. If you hit Delete or Backspace, it sometimes makes the text box disappear. When clicking on the slide to move to the next appropriate slide, be sure you see the hand, not the arrow. (If you put your cursor over a text box, it will be an arrow and WILL NOT take you to the right location.)

3. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

4. Click here for Final Jeopardy

5. Paleolithic Facts Paleolithic Facts Neolithic Facts Neolithic Facts Sumerian People and Places Sumerian People and Places Assyrian, Chaldean or both? Assyrian, Chaldean or both? Geography of Mesopotamia Geography of Mesopotamia 100 Points 200 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points 100 Points100 Points100 Points100 Points100 Points 200 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points Life in Mesopotamia Life in Mesopotamia

6. This type of scientist digs up pieces of the past for study by another type of scientist

7. Archeologist

8. Early hunter- gatherers were this; they traveled with the food source

9. Nomads, or nomadic

10. Three adaptations to the environment that Paleolithic people had

11. Traveled with food, made fire, adapted shelter to surroundings, blended in while hunting, used furs for clothing

12. This is the difference between fossils and artifacts

13. Fossils: petrified plants and animals found in rocks Artifacts: items made by humans that show how people used to live

14. The time period that the last ice age occurred, and how many degrees colder it was at that time

15. 10,000 to 100,000 years ago; 7-15 degrees colder throughout the year

16. This invention probably brought about the Neolithic revolution

17. Domestication of crops, or the invention of the plow (farming)

18. One of the two early villages that developed in and around the Fertile Crescent

19. Jericho (Israel) and Catal Huyuk (Turkey)

20. This is the definition of specialization

21. When not every person has to gather food, so they can focus on other talents, skills, and jobs

22. These four animal products began being used as a result of domestication

23. Milk, eggs, cheese, wool/blankets, leather

24. Time periods of both the New Stone Age (when the Neolithic period began) and the Bronze Age

25. Neolithic: 8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C. Bronze Age: 3000 to 1200 B.C.

26. The word Mesopotamia means this

27. “The land between the rivers”

28. These three reasons show why river valleys were important

29. Provided food and water, led to farming, provided access to trade and wealth, allowed people to specialize in other jobs, more food meant more people and the development of government, and there were class systems based on power and wealth

30. The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates was unpredictable, leading to these two results

31. People started building dams and irrigation; people thought their gods were mean and were punishing them

32. These three characteristics help describe a city-state

33. They were independent, they fought for territory, they built walls for protection, they were surrounded by desert, and they were one isolated city with it’s own government

34. Mesopotamian people were this, meaning they worshipped many gods

35. Polytheistic

36. Sumerians built these at the center of their city, meaning “Mountain of God”

37. Ziggurat (temple)

38. These are the three parts to the Sumerian social class system, with an explanation, of course

39. Upper class (kings, priests, nobles) Middle class (artisans, or expert craftspeople) Lower class- slaves, POWs, and criminals

40. To become a scribe, a wealthy young man had to put up with some mean teachers, and he had to become an expert at writing this type of script

41. Cuneiform

42. The Sumerians came up with these four advancements in math and science

43. Number system based on 60, wagon wheel, geometry, 12-month calendar

44. List of sometimes harsh, sometimes fair rules put in place by the ruler of Babylon around 1700 B.C.

45. Hammurabi’s Code

46. First to use iron weapons

47. Assyrians

48. Had ziggurats built by skilled builders

49. Assyrians and Chaldeans

50. Invented sundial and charted the stars

51. Chaldeans

52. Had the hanging gardens of Babylon

53. Chaldeans

54. Used big war machines like battering rams

55. Assyrians

56. Answer 1f

57. Tigris and Euphrates River

58. Answer 2f

59. Red Sea

60. Answer 3f

61. Nile River

62. Answer 4f

63. Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea

64. Answer 5f

65. Persian Gulf

66. Make your wager

67. These five things are found in civilizations, but not in hunter- gatherer societies

68. 1) An economy based on trade and wealth, 2) specialization in skilled crafts, 3) development of government, 4) class systems, 5) writing systems, 6) farming advancements like irrigation and the plow, 7) growth of religion, 8)permanent buildings made of mud brick like walls and ziggurats, 9) domestication of crops and animals