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Help! Some children visiting a museum have been held captive! They need your help to escape! If you can solve each puzzle and breakout in time, then the children will be set free! There is a reward of $10,000 if they get released in time! Can you save them?
Help! Some children visiting a museum have been held captive! They need your help to escape! If you can solve each puzzle and breakout in time, then the children will be set free! There is a reward of $10,000 if they get released in time! Can you save them?
1. What material was used to make the tablets?
1. What material was used to make the tablets?
A. stone B. clay C. both
A. stone B. clay C. both
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2. What was a common consequence?
2. What was a common consequence?
A. death B. pain C. jail
A. death B. pain C. jail
3. When may a woman marry the man of her heart?
3. When may a woman marry the man of her heart?
A. When she chooses
A. When she chooses
B. When she has raised at least 1 child
B. When she has raised at least 1 child
C. After she has brought up all of her children
C. After she has brought up all of her children
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4. When will one be put to death?
4. When will one be put to death?
A. When a man's bone is broken
A. When a man's bone is broken
B. If a son strikes his father
B. If a son strikes his father
C. If anyone has committed a robbery and is caught
C. If anyone has committed a robbery and is caught
5 Digit Number Lock
5 Digit Number Lock
This is cuneiform: wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia. It was first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. In cuneiform, a carefully cut writing implement known as a stylus is pressed into soft clay to produce wedge-like impressions that represent word-signs (pictographs).
This is cuneiform: wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia. It was first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. In cuneiform, a carefully cut writing implement known as a stylus is pressed into soft clay to produce wedge-like impressions that represent word-signs (pictographs).
Use the generator to the right to figure out the cuneiform pictograph above! *Hint: The answer is a Southern California zip code!
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5 Digit Directional Lock
Let's take a tour of Mesopotamia! Hop aboard the train and lets travel the area! Use your map and train tickets to travel to the correct locations!
Let's take a tour of Mesopotamia! Hop aboard the train and lets travel the area! Use your map and train tickets to travel to the correct locations!
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5 Digit Color Lock
1. On a map, the Fertile Crescent looks like a crescent or quarter-moon. 2. It extends from the Nile River on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in the south to the southern fringe of Turkey in the north. The Fertile Crescent is bounded on the west by the 3. Mediterranean Sea and on the East by the Persian Gulf. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through the heart of the Fertile Crescent.
1. On a map, the Fertile Crescent looks like a crescent or quarter-moon. 2. It extends from the Nile River on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in the south to the southern fringe of Turkey in the north. The Fertile Crescent is bounded on the west by the 3. Mediterranean Sea and on the East by the Persian Gulf. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through the heart of the Fertile Crescent.
The Fertile Crescent is the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization,” this area was the birthplace of a number of technological innovations, including writing, the wheel, agriculture, and the use of irrigation. The Fertile Crescent includes ancient Mesopotamia. 4. Assyrian Kings in the Mitanni State created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. 5. The state of Babylonia expanded during the era of Hammurabi.
The Fertile Crescent is the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization,” this area was the birthplace of a number of technological innovations, including writing, the wheel, agriculture, and the use of irrigation. The Fertile Crescent includes ancient Mesopotamia. 4. Assyrian Kings in the Mitanni State created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. 5. The state of Babylonia expanded during the era of Hammurabi.
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Mesopotamia has a rich history. Many events shaped its development and contributed to its successes and failures. From the beginning, when the Sumer formed the first towns and cities, also using irrigation to farm large areas of land, to when Hammurabi became King of Babylon, Mesopotamia is one of the most well known Ancient Civilizations! The *difference* in these events spanned thousands of years. Do the math!
Mesopotamia has a rich history. Many events shaped its development and contributed to its successes and failures. From the beginning, when the Sumer formed the first towns and cities, also using irrigation to farm large areas of land, to when Hammurabi became King of Babylon, Mesopotamia is one of the most well known Ancient Civilizations! The *difference* in these events spanned thousands of years. Do the math!
5000 BC - The Sumer form the first towns and cities. They use irrigation to farm large areas of land.
4000 BC - The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods.
3500 BC - Much of lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by numerous Sumer city-states such as Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
3300 BC - The Sumerians invent the first writing. They use pictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets.
3200 BC - The Sumerians begin to use the wheel on vehicles.
3000 BC - The Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60.
2700 BC - The famous Sumerian King Gilgamesh rules the city-state of Ur.
2400 BC - The Sumerian language is replaced by the Akkadian language as the primary spoken language in Mesopotamia.
2330 BC - Sargon I of the Akkadians conquers most of the Sumerian city states and creates the world's first empire, the Akkadian Empire.
2250 BC - King Naram-Sin of the Akkadians expands the empire to its largest state. He will rule for 50 years.
2100 BC - After the Akkadian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again gain power. The city of Ur is rebuilt.
2000 BC - The Elamites capture Ur.
1900 BC - The Assyrians rise to power in northern Mesopotamia.
1792 BC - Hammurabi becomes king of Babylon. He establishes the Code of Hammurabi and Babylon soon takes over much of Mesopotamia.
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