Transcript Jeopardy - Mesopotamia

JEOPARDY
Mesopotamia
Geography
“The Social
Ziggurat”
Famous
Leaders
Government
Achievements
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It’s what this area is called.
What is the Fertile
Crescent?
Mesopotamia is
known as “the land
between two rivers”.
These are those rivers.
What are the Tigris
and the Euphrates?
The cities of Ur and
Uruk were both in this
region of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
Hammurabi was king
of this important
Mesopotamian citystate.
What is Babylon?
This is what made
southern
Mesopotamian
farmland so valuable.
What is the rich silt
that flooded its
alluvial plains each
year?
Most people in
Sumerian society were
in this class.
What is the middle class?
(It included skilled
workers like carpenters,
potters, brick layers,
doctors and scribes.)
These are two ways to
become a slave in
Mesopotamia.
What is be a prisoner of war,
being born one, or your
family sold you into slavery
to pay off their debts.
Kings, priests, and
rich land owners
belonged to this
highest social class.
What is the first,
ruling, or noble class?
These are the two
groups that made up
the lowest social
class.
Who are any of these
three: farmers,
laborers, or unskilled
workers, and slaves?
Mesopotamians believed in
many gods like Enki,
Ninhursag, Enlil, Utu, and
Nanna. Belief in many
gods is called this.
What is polytheism.
According to legend,
Gilgamesh was only
part human. He was
also this.
What is
rds
2/3
god?
This is why
Gilgamesh is
remembered.
What is because his
stories were written in
clay by scribes?
(He was also the real king of Uruk.)
Hammurabi had 282 laws
based on equal justice.
This is what those laws
were called collectively.
What is the Code of
Hammurabi?
Hammurabi kept his
government funded
with money gathered
using this system.
What is taxation?
This is Sargon the
Emperor’s empire.
What is the Akkadian
Empire?
This is an organized
system that groups use to
make laws and decisions
about its people.
What is a
government?
Sumer had 12 of these
cities with their
surrounding
farmlands.
What are city-states?
This is what the “big
men”, or kings, type of
rule is called.
What is a monarchy?
These were respected
Sumerians because they
were servants to the gods
and advised the king.
Who were the priests?
Before Mesopotamian cities
got too big free citizens made
decisions for themselves.
This is one of the earliest
examples of this form of
government.
What is a democracy?
These are the “wedgeshaped” characters
that scribes pressed
into clay.
What is cuneiform?
These two inventions
helped farmers keep their
crops from getting flooded
or washed away.
What are dikes and
canals?
This would have been the
largest building in a place
like Ur, and probably a
temple for the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamians knew a
lot about the Earth’s
cycles and time. They
even invented this
world’s first clock.
What is a sundial?
This is one of
the Seven
Wonders of
the Ancient
World. It can
be found in
Mesopotamia.
What is the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon?