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100
This is the region where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Around 3000 B.C., historians believe that the early Mesopotamians developed this, the first in the world.
What is civilization?
100
Keeping official records in Sumerian society was the job of this person.
What is a scribe?
100
The name "Mesopotamia" means this.
What is "land between the rivers"?
100
The Mesopotamians used this material to build their homes.
What is mud or clay?
200
This kind of climate is hot and fairly dry.
What is semi-arid?
200
This is where the priests collected payments and conducted religious services.
What is the city's ziggurat?
200
The first writing system the Sumerians developed used a system of symbols known as this.
What is pictographs?
200
Because of a surplus of this crop, the Mesopotamians were able to trade for wood, stone and metal.
What is grain?
200
Because they worshipped many gods, the Sumerians are said to have practiced this.
What is polytheism?
300
This area contains soil that is enriched by the overflowing waters of a nearby river.
What is a floodplain?
300
The early Mesopotamians organized themselves into this type of government bodies.
What are city-states?
300
The Sumerians mixed copper and tin together to create tools made of this alloy.
What is bronze?
300
By about 6000 B.C., farmers in Mesopotamia built these to carry water from rivers to their fields.
What are canals?
300
Before workers can switch from farming to other specialized fields, a society must have a surplus of this.
What is food?
400
Flooding rivers enrich the areas around them by depositing this on the land.
What is silt?
400
The highest leader in ancient Mesopotamia was this.
What is a king?
400
The writing system the Sumerians developed using wedge-shaped symbols is known as this.
What is cuneiform?
400
These people were the lowest class in Sumer.
What are slaves?
400
This was probably the first tool the Sumerians invented to help them with their farming.
What is a plow?
500
This results when not enough rain or snow falls in an area over a long period of time.
What is a drought?
500
This is the civilization that arose around 3000 B.C. in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
500
The Sumerians used this to scratch wedge shapes and other symbols into tablets of soft clay.
What is a stylus?
500
The early Sumerian temples were known as these.
What are ziggurats?
500
These two groups were at the top of the upper classes of Sumer.
What are kings and priests?
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