THE GEOGRAPHY
JOBS
HISTORY
VOCABULARY
MISCELLANEOUS
100
FLOODPLAIN
What is the land bordering the banks of a river?
100
King
What person is the most powerful in the Sumerian society?
100
Mesopotamia
What is the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates called?
100
Polytheism
What is the belief in many gods or goddesses?
100
Irrigation
What is a system used to control the waterways?
200
Silt
What is the enriched soil deposited on the floodplains?
200
Scribes
Who is responsible for keeping official records in a Sumerian society?
200
Civilization
What early Mesopotamians developed first
200
Pictograph
What is a picture that represents a word or an idea?
200
Currents
What helped move boats in the sea?
300
Unpredictable
What is floods in Mesopotamia?
300
Raising children
What is the main role for women in Sumer?
300
Wheel
Historians believe that around 6000 B.C. the sumerians invented the ____________.
300
Cuneiform
What is the writing system that uses wedge-shaped markings?
300
Surplus
What is an excess amount of crops?
400
Turkey and Kurdistan
The Euphrates and Tigris rivers rise in the mountains of what are now
400
Priests
After the king, who had the most power in the Sumerian society?
400
Hammurabi the Great
What leader developed a code enforcing an "eye for an eye"?
400
City-States
What is a city and its nearby farmlands
400
Hammurabi's Code
What are the laws the people of Babylonia had to follow?
500
Complex institutions, record keeping, specialized workers, advanced technology. and advanced citites.
What are the five traits of civilization?
500
Scribes, weavers, tool makers
What are specialized workers?
500
Wood, gold and ivory.
What is some resources Mesopotamians lacked?
500
Civilization
What is an advanced culture that developed in cities?
500
Enriched the soil and washed away crops
What are positive and negative effects of flooding in Mesopotamia?
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