This was one of the factors that led to the creation of civilizations.
What is agriculture (farming), trade and/or domestication?
100
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
We know from reading the Epic of Gilgamesh that some Mesopotamians thought of these as future-tellers?
What are dreams?
100
A building that honors one god in a particular city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
100
This code of law was supposedly given to a king by the gods.
What is Hammurabi's code?
200
This society was the most primitive of the 4 main types of "civilizations."
What were bands?
200
This area of Mesopotamia was difficult to farm due to the rocky soil and uneven ground.
What is Northern Mesopotamia?
200
Gilgamesh's reaction to Enkidu death in the Epic of Gilgamesh illustrates this value.
What is friendship?
200
These 3 foods were eaten in ancient Mesopotamia
What are barley, vegetables, beer, fruit, butter, sheep, oxen, fish, cattle (beef) and goat?
200
In Sumerian city-states ONE of these ruled over the city.
What is a king? (Who was often the highest priest as well).
300
The way people in bands got their food.
What is hunting and gathering?
300
These are three different physical characteristics of Sumerians.
What is dark skin, dark eyes, dark hair, eyes sloped downwards, straight thin lips, short and/or solid bodies?
300
These were used as signatures on contracts or legal documents.
What were cylinder seals?
300
Sumerians used this material to build houses within the cities because it was useful to keep the heat out.
What are mud bricks?
300
This well-known phrase describes the nature of Hammurabi's code.
What is "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?"
400
This category of society would have the most powerful military force.
What is a state?
400
This river was slow and winding, but often flooded badly.
What is the Euphrates river?
400
Out of respect and fear, every city-state honored one of these.
What is a god/goddess?
400
These types of jewelry were worn by men and women in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are glass beads and heavy necklaces?
400
Armor was made out of these two materials.
What are leather and metal discs?
500
Although we often associate this with civilizations, many civilizations did not have this.
What is technology?
500
Ancient Sumer was ideal for farming because the land was like this.
What is low and flat?
500
One side of this piece of artwork found in the Royal Tomb at Ur showed soldiers returning from war, the other side represented the class system with a Mesopotamian city.
What is the Standard of Ur?
500
These were worn by Sumerian soldiers.
What is armor made of leather, metal discs and copper helmets.
500
This city is where Hammurabi's code was first adopted.