Mesopotamia
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100
I was a Babylonian King
Who is HAMMURABI?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
100
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
100
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The first civilization in Mesopotamia.

Who was Sumer?

200

The type of government that is run by the religious leaders.

What is a theocracy?

200
I was the civilization led by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonia?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200

Three reasons civilizations settled near rivers.

What is a source of water, fertile soil, moderate climate?

300
Mesopotamia was located in what modern-day country?

What is Iraq?

300
A traditional story that tells a belief.
What is a myth?
300

What did early civilizations settle near?

What is fresh water?

300

I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia that the Nile River flows into.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

300

Sumerian invention for pottery.

What is the wheel?

400

The Sumerians created this agricultural tool.

What is the plow?

400

This was what a husband could decide to do to his wife and children in Sumer.

What is a sell into slavery?

400
When rivers flood, it stirs up and deposits this sand-like substance on the riverbank.

What is the silt?

400
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400

This is what the Sumerians thought the gods or goddesses controlled.

What is a everything?

500

According to Hammurabi's Code what was the penalty for stealing from the temple?

What is death?

500

This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE.

What is agriculture?

500
Writing in wedge shapes on clay tablets.

What are the cunieform?

500

Mesopotamia means or is known as.

What is land between the two rivers?

500
Set of 282 laws that included both criminal and civil laws.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

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