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100
Rulers often led rituals to please them.
What are THE GODS?
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
____ land easily grows crops and has rich soil.
What is fertile?
100
The Sumerian system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
His code was the first set of laws to be written.
Who was HAMMURABI?
200
We were not able to learn to read, and spent our lives farming.
Who are peasants/the lower class?
200
This was the center of worship in every city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
This class included scribes, artisans and merchants.
What is the middle class?
300
This heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk also had a poem named after him, titled the Epic of _______.
Who was Gilgamesh?
300
We could read and write in Sumer, but not in later civilizations.
Who are women?
300
I took over all of Mesopotamia and built an empire
Who is Hammurabi?
300
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
300
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
400
Sargon, ruler of Akkad, was the first to create this.
What is an empire?
400
Villagers had to work together to fight against this natural force.
What are floods?
400
This group divided a circle into 360 degrees and an hour into 60 minutes.
Who are Sumerians?
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 means "between the rivers" in Greek.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
I created the world’s first empire
Who was Sargon I?
500
This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE.
What is agriculture?
500
The group who created a new alphabet and traded purple cloth.
What are the Phoenicians?
500
This civilization was a crossroads of trade because of its central location.
What is Babylon?
500
A time when people starve because there is so little food.
What is famine?
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