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Sumer
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100
This river, along with the Tigris, surrounds Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River.
100
A Sumerian writing system that uses wedge-shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
100
The Akkadian Empire was started by this leader.
Who is Sargon?
100
Sumerians lived in these individually-governed areas.
What are city-states?
100
He was the main character of the first book in history.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
Mesopotamia is located in the eastern part of this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This is still used today in how we keep time.
What is the base-60 number system?
200
This empire lasted for 200 years before being invaded and conquered.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
200
Sumerians believed in multiple gods, making them this.
What is polytheistic?
200
"An eye for an eye" is the main idea of this.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
Ancient Mesopotamia was mainly located in what is now modern Syria, Turkey, and this country.
What is Iraq?
300
It was necessary for Mesopotamians to create a calendar in order to keep track of these.
What are the annual floods?
300
These people introduced Assyrians to metallurgy and iron.
Who are the Hittites?
300
These are the only people allowed inside of the ziggurats.
What are priests?
300
Assyrians collected this from the people they conquered.
What is tribute?
400
Mesopotamian rivers were flooded with small particles of soil, called this.
What is silt?
400
This was the solution that Mesopotamians came up with to deal with the extreme flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is irrigation?
400
Hammurabi was a king in this empire.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
400
Scribes are mostly these.
What are young boys from wealthy families?
400
Ashurbanipal created the first one of these.
What is a library?
500
Early Mesopotamians lived in the foothills of these mountains but were forced to relocate due to food shortages.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
500
Legend says that a rogue this resulted in the creation of the wheel.
What is a pottery wheel?
500
Assyrian kings divided the empire into territories, called this.
What is a province?
500
This was one reason that Sumerian city-states fought with each other.
What is shared water supply?
500
Around this time, Assyrians began their military conquest of Mesopotamia.
What is 900 BCE?
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