Fertile Crescent Review 1 Jeopardy Template

Mesopotamia	Civilizations	Sumer	Sumer Take-over	Miscellaneous
100 What is meant by "between the rivers" Mesopotamia	100 What is the smallest group of people that eventually lead to the creation of a large civilization? hunter-gathers	100 What did each city and the surrounding land it controlled form? city-state	100 Who created the world's first empire? Sargon	100 What did flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers do for the land? bring silt to make it more fertile for farming
200 What is another name for Mesopotamia Fertile Crescent	200 What made farming so hard for people in Mesopotamia? extreme weather conditions	200 What is the pyramid shaped temple of the Sumerians called? ziggurat	200 Which group overwhelmed the Sumerians? Amorites	200 How far does the Fertile Crescent extend? from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
300 What is Northern Mesopotamia bordered by? mountains	300 What was the best way to control water flow in Mesopotamia? irrigation	300 What did food surpluses allow the Sumerians to increase? long-distance trade	300 What city became the capital of Sumer? Babylon	300 What connected basins to ditches to help with irrigation? canals
400 Where would early people mostly settle? where crops would grow	400 What is it called to have different types of workers in a more accomplished society? Division of labor	400 What is a series of rulers from a single family called? dynasty	400 Who was the most important ruler of the Babylonian Empire? Hammurabi	400 What was still the basis for each society when cities began to appear? agriculture
500 What are the 2 main rivers of Mesopotamia Tigris and Euphrates	500 What was the results of irrigation? food surplus	500 Who was the legendary king who searched for immortality? Gilgamesh	500 What is the most famous phrase of Hammurabi's code? an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth	500 Who controlled Sumer's earliest government? priests

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