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As a team you will be trying to earn the most money by answering review questions from our current history unit: Early Man and Mesopotamia. Each team has been given a white board and pen. As quickly as possible, after seeing a question, collaborate with your team members, write the answer and hold up your board. The team with the most money at the end of the game receives that amount in Carolle Cash. Good Luck, work together and HAVE FUN! Now get ready…. And….
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100 200 300 400 500 Vocabulary Early Humans Meso Civilization Meso Geography The Assyrians The Chaldeans
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Civilization A 100
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What are complex societies that have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system? A 100
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Nomads A 200
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Who are people that regularly move from place to place with no established home? A 200
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City-State A 300
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What are Sumerian cities and the land around it, each having its own government? A 300
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Domesticate A 400
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What is taming animals for human use? A 400
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Artifact A 500
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What are weapons, tools and other things made by humans? A 500
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Scientists who learn about past human life from fossils and artifacts. B 100
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Who are archeologists? B 100
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This led to people living closer together and an increase in population. B 200
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What is farming? B 200
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The use of tools and methods that help humans perform tasks. B 300
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What is technology? B 300
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During this time period people changed from hunting to herding animals. They began to domesticate or tame animals for human use. B 400
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What is the Mesolithic Age? B 400
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A surplus of food made it possible for people to practice this. B 500
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What is specialization? B 500
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“Mountain of God” or “Hill of Heaven” C 100
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What is a Ziggurat? C 100
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Each Sumerian city with its own government and the land around it. C 200
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What is a City-State C 200
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The belief in many gods. C 300
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What is Polytheism? C 300
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C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
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Sargon’s empire C 400
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What was the world’s first empire? C 400
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Irrigation systems, wagon wheel, plow, sailboat, 60-minute hour, 60-second minute, 360-degree circle, 12-month calendar C 500
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What were the Sumerian advances in Science and Math? C 500
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The two rivers which made the boundaries of the Fertile Crescent. D 100
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What are the Tigris and Euphrates? D 100
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“Land between two rivers” D 200
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What does “Mesopotamia” mean? D 200
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These are the borders of Mesopotamia D 300
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Northwest -Taurus Mountains East - Zagros Mountains West - Mediterranean Sea Southeast - Persian Gulf D 300
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The region of Mesopotamia includes these present day countries. D 400
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What are Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel? D 400
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The body of water into which the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow. D 500
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What is the Persian Gulf? D 500
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Because if this, Assyria was able to defend its land. E 100
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What are large armies? E 100
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Major rivers that were part of the Assyrian empire. E 200
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What are the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile? E 200
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The Assyrian kings divided the empire into these. E 300
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What are provinces? E 300
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Because of their collection of 25,000 tablets of stories and songs to the gods, the Assyrians built one of the world’s first of these. E 400
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What is a library? E 400
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Assyrian kings built these to join all parts of their empire. E 500
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What are roads? E 500
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This city became the world’s largest and richest city. F 100
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What is Babylon? F 100
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This was built to please Nebuchadnezzar’s wife. F 200
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What are The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? F 200
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Mapped stars Planets Moon phases Sundail 7-day week F 300
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What were some of the accomplishments of Chaldean astronomers? F 300
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These were groups of traveling merchants F 400
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What are caravans? F 400
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In 627 B.C. this person led his people in a rebellion against the Assyrians F 500
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Who is Nabopolassar? F 500
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The Final Jeopardy Category is: Mesopotamian People Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin
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The hero of an epic who travels around the world performing great deeds. Click on screen to continue
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Who was Gilgamesh? Click on screen to continue
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