Bluff!A Game and Study Guide All In One!

Rules

• In turn, each team will be asked a question.• Team members who know the answer will

stand up.• The other team will select ONE person

standing up to answer the question.• If that person gives a correct answer, the

team will receive as many points as there are people standing up. If the answer is wrong, that many points will be subtracted.

Rules Continued

• Each team will select one scorekeeper.• If no one from the team stands up, the

other team will be awarded 5 points.• If you do not stand up, or if you would not

have if it was your team’s turn, then write the question and answer down to create your own study guide.

• A team may not call on the same person from the opposing team until they have called on all the other members of the opposing team.

Question #1

•What word means the belief in many gods?

Answer #1

•Polytheism

Question #2

•Why was the Fertile Crescent a good place for developing civilizations?

Answer #2

•The rivers created very rich farmland

Question #3

•What word means a story about gods that explains people’s beliefs?

Answer #3

•myth

Question #4

•Why was Babylon an important center of trade?

Answer #4

• Because it was located between cities to the south and north

Question #5

•What word means many territories and people who are controlled by one government?

Answer #5

•empire

Question #6

•Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?

Answer #6

•The Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question #7

•Why did separate city-states develop in Sumer?

Answer #7

•Because the cities were separated by long distances

Question #8

What word means symbols for writing that represent sounds?

Answer #8

•alphabet

Question #9

•Why did Phoenicia become a thriving and wealthy region?

Answer #9

•Phoenicians sold valuable wood and purple dye to neighboring peoples.

Question #10

•How were the Israelites different in their religious beliefs than many other peoples at this time?

Answer #10

•They worshipped one god.

BLIND QUESTION

•A blind question is when players must commit to standing up before the question is asked.

Question #11

•What word means a group of traders traveling together?

•caravan

BLIND QUESTION #12

• Why was the Phoenician alphabet so important to people in the ancient world?

Answer

• It made it easier to learn to read and write.

Question #13

•What word means a time when people starve because there is so little food?

Answer #13

•famine

Question #14

•What was one of the major events in the history of the Israelites?

Answer #14

•The conquest of Canaan

Question #15

•What word means the belief in one god?

Answer #15

•monotheism

Question #16

•What is one of the main reasons why Hammurabi’s Code was significant?

Answer #16

•For the first time, laws were written down

Question #17

What word means professional writer?

Answer #17

• scribe

Question #18

Why did the Sumerians make their ziggurats with terraces, one on top of the other?

Answer #18

• They believed the gods could use it to descend to Earth.

Question #19

• What word means the area good for agriculture that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?

Answer #19

• Fertile Crescent

Question #20

• What was one military innovation of the Assyrians?

Answer #20

• Battering ram

Question #21

• What is the writing in Mesopotamia that combined symbols to make groups of wedges and lines?

Answer #21

• cuneiform

Question #22

• Who developed the first alphabet?

Question #22

• The Phoenicians