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A Mesopotamian temple
What is a Ziggurat
Hammurabi's code featured these
What are laws
This made food safer to eat
What is Fire
The ancient world’s original version of texting—except the messages were pressed into clay with a reed and took a lot longer to delete.
What is Cuneiform
The Ancient Civilization we've been learning about
What is Mesopotamia?
Farmers were members of this social class in Mesopotamia
What is lower
The Hittites conquered this empire
What is Babylon
Safety was one the reasons early humans hunted in these.
What are groups
Mesopotamia’s overachieving number system—counting by 60 instead of 10, and the reason we still have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle!
What is The 60 Base System?
Mesopotamia features these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
Babylonian King who established the code "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
Who is Hammurabi
If you worship more than one god, you are this
What is a Polytheist
Early humans art would tell a story and was often visible here
What is in caves
Mesopotamia’s ancient timekeeping trick—dividing the year into 12 lunar months to help track festivals, farming, and the movements of the moon and stars!
What is the 12 Month Calendar?
This ancient “land between two rivers” is mainly found in these three modern-day countries, located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What are Iraq, Kuwait, and Syria?
This legendary Persian king built one of the ancient world’s largest empires—and became famous for ruling with tolerance, respecting different cultures, and letting conquered peoples keep their customs and beliefs!
What was Cyrus the Great
Akkadian king, That led the first unified empire in Mesopotamia
Who is Sargon I
Access to this, often determined the residence of early humans........and if you think about, humans today.
What is food and water
At the ziggurat, the priests managed these three responsibilities running the economy, government, and food supply.
What are Trade,Taxes and agriculture
This lush, crescent-shaped region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers provided rich soil and water that helped early civilizations grow.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The two main empires that separated the Akkadian Empire.
What are the Babylonian and Assyrian Empires
This wealthy Mesopotamian city was famous for its impressive ziggurat and is traditionally associated with Abraham.
What is Ur.
A fancy word for an old object with a story—basically, history’s version of “I was here.”
What are artifacts
This ancient Mesopotamian time system gave us seven days, each linked to the sun, moon, or one of the five visible planets—turning the sky into the world’s first weekly calendar!
What is the 7-day a Week
The assyrian empire extended from the persian gulf to this river which is well known to flow into Egypt
What is the Nile river