Writing
Vocabulary
Geography/Climate
The Gods
Achievements of Mesopotamia
100
The Sumerians invented this form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
A person in Mesopotamia who does the writing on clay tablets.
What is a scribe?
100
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The belief in many Gods?
What is polytheism?
100
The ______________ on the bus go round and round
What are wheels?
200
Cunieform uses characters that are this shape.
What is wedge shaped?
200
People who have no permanent residence, but rather roam from place to place.
What are nomads?
200
Hot weather and little of this describe Mesopotamia's climate
What is rain?
200
Ancient Mesopotamia's had a lot of Gods. Over ___________ of them.
What is 3,000?
200
This invention, with its many ditches, turned arid land into viable farm land.
What is irrigation?
300
Cuneiform was said to have been invented when.
What is 3,000 to 2,500 B.C.?
300
A worker who is skilled in making a particular product by hand.
What is an artisan?
300
The Tigris and Euphrates flow into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
Mesopotamia's Gods were said to look like people and this.
What is act like people?
300
This invention of Mesopotamia helps us plan for the future.
What is the calendar?
400
Cuneiform consisted of this many symbols.
What is 600?
400
A nation and the other nations it has conquered. Usually under one leadership.
What is an empire?
400
Mesopotamia is located on a wide, flat one of these.
What is a plain?
400
According to the Sumerians legends, this number of Gods created the world.
What is 4?
400
This invention helped to break up the soil to make it easier to plant crops.
What is the plow?
500
They invented the modern alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
A self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmland.
What is a city-state?
500
Mesopotamia encompassed land that is now the modern countries of...
What is Iraq and Iran?
500
The father of all Gods.
What is An?
500
An invention using a stick and a shadow. Wasn't it a time for a change?
What is the sundial?
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