Human Geography
Physical Asia
Mesopotamia
Civilized
Achievements
100
The number of births per thousand per year.
What is birth rate?
100
The tallest mountains in the world.
What are the Himalayas?
100
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Cuneiform is an example of this key trait of civilization.
What is Writing?
100
Their king, Hammurabi, created the first unified code of laws.
Who were the Babylonians?
200
The way of life a group of people share.
What is culture?
200
A large landmass that is a major part of a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
200
This allowed people to settle into towns and villages.
What is farming?
200
Examples of this key trait could include punishers, scribes, priests, or schoolmasters.
What are Specialized Workers?
200
They invented a simplified alphabet and made purple dye from snails.
Who were the Phoenicians?
300
A person who studies population patterns.
What is a demographer?
300
Land that is able to produce crops.
What is arable land?
300
The worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
300
Examples of this key trait could include a sailboat, a plow, or wheeled vehicles.
What is Advanced Technology?
300
They created the largest empire in Mesopotamia.
Who were the Persians?
400
An economic system where the government controls all means of production.
What is a command economy?
400
The measure of the quality of life.
What is standard of living?
400
The use of a road system, common coins, satraps, allowing people to live their own cultures, and using spies.
How did the Persians manage their vast empire?
400
Examples of this key trait are Ur, Lagash, Nineveh, and Jerusalem.
What are Cities?
400
They had the first zoo, a library with thousands of clay tablets, and were known for their warrior skills.
Who were the Assyrians?
500
A government system where people get to vote for people to make decisions for them.
What is a representative democracy?
500
It is nicknamed China's Sorrow because of its devastating floods.
What is the Huang He or Yellow River?
500
The first monotheists.
Who were the Hebrews/Israelites?
500
Examples of this key trait of civilization could include government, schools, and religion.
What are Complex Institutions?
500
Their king, Nebuchadnezzar, built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who were the Chaldeans?
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