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Fertile Crescent and
Mesopotamia
How to Play:
• Each table will represent a team.
• All teams will receive a dry-erase
board & marker.
• Questions will appear on the board
with point values ranging from
$100- $1,000,000.
– The questions will be worth more
money as the game progresses. Go to
Board
• A question will appear on the board
with 4 possible answers.
• All teams will discuss possible
answers, write final answers on
their dry-erase boards, and wait
for the rest of the teams to finish.
• The teams who answer correctly
will have the amount of money the
question is worth added to their
score.
THE TEAM WITH
THE MOST
MONEY AT THE
END OF THE GAME
WINS! 
 $1,000,000
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500,000
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500,000
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500,000
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100,000
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100,000
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100,000
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10,000
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10,000
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10,000
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1,000
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1,000
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100
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100
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100
Click to return to
question, Cont-P to
switch to the pen, cross
out two incorrect
answers, then Cont-A to
switch back to pointer.
Click to return to the
question and poll the
class
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Jeeves, or click on this
oval to return to
question and ask a
friend
Each Mesopotamian city-state had
its own …
 A. god or goddess
 B. language.
 C. culture
D. symbol.
A. god or goddess
$ 100
Babylon was a crossroads of
trade because of its location
 A. between cities
to the south and north
 C. near irrigation canals.
 B. on the Nile River.
 D. on the Mediterranean
Sea.
A. between cities
to the south and north
$ 100
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The Phoenicians helped spread civilization
throughout the Mediterranean area by
A. using ships to trade
goods with other peoples.
 C. conquering all the
lands west of the
Persian Gulf.
B. telling tales of monsters
that lived in the ocean.
 D. controlling the
supply of a valuable purple dye.
A. using ships to trade goods
with other peoples.
$100
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Which of the following was the first
written set of laws?
A. the Epic of Gilgamesh
 B. the Ziggurat of Ur
 C. the Ten Commandments
D. Hammurabi’s Code
D. Hammurabi’s Code
$ 1,000
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Where did writing first develop?
 A. Mesopotamia
 B. Assyria
C. Phoenicia
 D. Canaan
C. Empire
$ 1,000
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Civilization developed in the Fertile
Crescent because
 A. the Nile River made
it a prosperous area.
 B. it was an important
mining area.
 C. the area was
 D. the rivers there created
very rich farmland.
difficult to defend.
D. the rivers there created
very rich farmland.
$ 1,000
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Cities in Sumer remained
politically independent and…
 A. they united under
one government
 B. they were frequently
destroyed by floods.
 C. they developed
 D. they were ruled
into separate city-states
by one king and queen
C. they developed into separate
city-states
$ 10,000
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Babylon became an important
center of trade because it was…
 A. ruled by a powerful
queen.
 C. the site of a
great library
 B. located between
cities to the south and north
 D. surrounded by
massive walls.
B. located between cities to
the south and north
$ 10,000
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In 612 B.C., the Medes and
Chaldeans joined forces to
 A. build the city
of Nineveh
 B. found the overland
trade route to Asia
 C. conquer Mari
 D. destroy the
Assyrian Empire
D. destroy the Assyrian
Empire
$10,000
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Hammurabi’s Code was significant
because…
 A. it was part of the
oral traditions of Babylonia
 C. everyone in the
ancient world followed it
 B. for the first time,
laws were written down
 D. the laws applied
equally to all citizens
B. for the first time, laws
were written down
$ 100,000
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The Phoenician alphabet made it easier
for people in the ancient world to
 A. hire scribes
 B. teach cuneiform
 C. learn to read and write.
 D. learn cuneiform.
C. learn to read and write.
$ 100,000
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One of the major events in the
history of the Israelites was
 A. the discovery
of cuneiform
 C. the founding
of Tyre
 B. the conquest of Egypt
 D. the settlement of Canaan.
D. the settlement of
Canaan.
$100,000
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What were the Israelites known for that
made them unique among ancient peoples?
 A. They worshipped one god.
 B. They did not have
 C. They worshipped
 D. They made purple
many gods.
a written Bible
dye from snails.
A. They worshipped one
god.
$ 500,000
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Why did Phoenicia become a
thriving and wealthy region?
A. The warlike Phoenicians
conquered their neighbors
 C. Gold was discovered
near the city of Tyre
 B. Phoenicia controlled
access to the cities of Sumer
 D. Sold valuable wood and dyed
cloth to neighboring peoples
D. Sold valuable wood and dyed
cloth to neighboring peoples
$500,000
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Mesopotamia was located on land?
 A. the Nile and
Tigris rivers.
B. the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers.
 C. the Nile and
Euphrates rivers
 D. the Red Sea
and the Tigris River.
B. the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers.
$ 500,000!
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What did the Persians spread
through conquest and trade?
 A. disease and slavery
C. art and architecture
 B. religion, a system of
bureaucracy, and Babylonian science.
 D. a system of writing
B. religion, a system of bureacracy,
and Babylonian science.
$ 1,000,000!
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