Land Between Rivers
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100
This word means "land between rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
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
An arc of land ideal for farming
What is the fertile crescent?
200
We were allowed to go to school in Mesopotamia.
Who are upperclass boys?
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
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
300
These are four farming techniques used by the Mesopotamians
What are irrigation, dykes, canals, dams, ditches, sickles, plows, bucket and lever, Archimides screw, bucket and chain?
300
A traditional story that tells a belief.
What is a myth?
300
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
300
I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
After leaving Egypt, the Israelites settled here.
What is Canaan?
400
These were the first three Mesopotamian Empires, in order.
What were Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria?
400
The length of a traditional school day in Mesopotamia.
What is from sunrise to sunset?
400
This group was the first group to map the stars and building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
What is the Chaldeans?
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
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
500
It's the substance that irrigation caused to rise to the surface, poisoning crops. clue: NaCl
What is salt?
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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