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Final Jeopardy
Paleolithic
Facts
Neolithic
Facts
Sumerian
Life in
People and
Mesopotamia
Places
Assyrian, Geography
of
Chaldean
or both? Mesopotamia
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This type of scientist
digs up pieces of the
past for study by
another type of
scientist
Archeologist
Early huntergatherers were this;
they traveled with
the food source
Nomads, or
nomadic
Three adaptations
to the environment
that Paleolithic
people had
Traveled with food,
made fire, adapted
shelter to surroundings,
blended in while
hunting, used furs for
clothing
This is the
difference between
fossils and artifacts
Fossils: petrified plants and
animals found in rocks
Artifacts: items made by
humans that show how
people used to live
The time period that
the last ice age
occurred, and how
many degrees colder
it was at that time
10,000 to 100,000
years ago;
7-15 degrees colder
throughout the year
This invention
probably brought
about the Neolithic
revolution
Domestication of
crops, or the
invention of the
plow (farming)
One of the two
early villages that
developed in and
around the Fertile
Crescent
Jericho (Israel)
and Catal Huyuk
(Turkey)
This is the definition
of specialization
When not every person
has to gather food, so
they can focus on other
talents, skills, and jobs
These four animal
products began being
used as a result of
domestication
Milk, eggs, cheese,
wool/blankets,
leather
Time periods of both
the New Stone Age
(when the Neolithic
period began) and the
Bronze Age
Neolithic: 8000 B.C.
to 4000 B.C.
Bronze Age: 3000 to
1200 B.C.
The word
Mesopotamia
means this
“The land between
the rivers”
These three reasons
show why river
valleys were
important
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
The flooding of the
Tigris and Euphrates
was unpredictable,
leading to these two
results
People started building
dams and irrigation;
people thought their
gods were mean and
were punishing them
These three
characteristics help
describe a city-state
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
Mesopotamian people
were this, meaning
they worshipped
many gods
Polytheistic
Sumerians built
these at the center of
their city, meaning
“Mountain of God”
Ziggurat (temple)
These are the three
parts to the Sumerian
social class system,
with an explanation, of
course
Upper class (kings, priests,
nobles)
Middle class (artisans, or
expert craftspeople)
Lower class- slaves, POWs,
and criminals
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
Cuneiform
The Sumerians
came up with these
four advancements
in math and science
Number system
based on 60, wagon
wheel, geometry,
12-month calendar
List of sometimes
harsh, sometimes fair
rules put in place by
the ruler of Babylon
around 1700 B.C.
Hammurabi’s Code
First to use iron
weapons
Assyrians
Had ziggurats built
by skilled builders
Assyrians and
Chaldeans
Invented sundial
and charted the
stars
Chaldeans
Had the hanging
gardens of Babylon
Chaldeans
Used big war
machines like
battering rams
Assyrians
Answer 1f
Tigris and
Euphrates River
Answer 2f
Red Sea
Answer 3f
Nile River
Answer 4f
Mediterranean
Sea, Black Sea,
Caspian Sea
Answer 5f
Persian Gulf
Make your wager
These five things
are found in
civilizations, but
not in huntergatherer societies
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