Geography
This term means "between rivers" in Greek and refers to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
The first farm settlements in Mesopotamia emerged around this year.
What is 7000 B.C.?
This material was used to create bricks in Mesopotamia.
What is clay?
This was the world’s first civilization located in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
These people were primarily engaged in farming in Sumer.
Who are farmers?
This geographic feature bordered Mesopotamia to the north and east.
What are mountains?
Floods in Mesopotamia brought this essential substance that enriched the soil.
What is silt?
These structures were built to manage water resources and support agriculture.
What are irrigation systems?
The king who established the first empire by defeating Sumerian city-states.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
This form of writing used wedge-shaped pictures on tablets to represent syllables or parts of words.
What is cuneiform?
The flat plain located to the south of Mesopotamia.
What is the southern plain?
Settlements in Mesopotamia began to develop into these around 4000 BC to 3000 BC.
What are cities?
The system that connected basins to a network of ditches in Mesopotamia.
What are canals?
By 2000 BC, some Mesopotamian cities had populations exceeding this number.
What is 100,000?
This epic literary work from Mesopotamia features the hero Gilgamesh.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?