EMPIRES
CULTURE & RELIGION
GEOGRAPHY & AGRICULTURE
GOVERNMENT
ACHIEVEMENTS & INVENTIONS
100
Gilgamesh ruled THIS city-state in Sumer.
What is Uruk?
100
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Mesopotamia is known as _______.
What is "the Land Between Two Rivers"?
100
Mesopotamia's form of government ruled by a king.
What is a monarchy?
100
Sumerian invention that made it much easier to transport things & people by land.
What is the Wheel?
200
The world's first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
200
Sumerians worshipped gods, also known as ______.
What are deities?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
200
These were the 281 laws in Babylonia.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
Mesopotamians developed _______ to help with irrigation during flood season.
What are levees? (Also accepted: dams, canals, dikes)
300
The first cities in Mesopotamia were developed around what year.
What is 3500 BCE?
300
The temple where the Mesopotamian gods were worshipped.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This consisted of extra crops that were traded with other civilizations.
What is surplus?
300
A Mesopotamian town that had walls and a working government.
What is a city-state?
300
Scribes used these sharpened reeds to write in cuneiform on soft clay.
What is a stylus?
400
This Akkadian leader helped conquer the Sumerians
Who was Sargon?
400
People who could write & recorded things for others in ancient Mesopotamia.
Who are scribes?
400
Soil and tiny rocks carried or deposited on the land by floodwaters.
What is silt?
400
Mesopotamian officials collected THIS to pay for war.
What are taxes?
400
These were written on clay tablets, which included information describing the best way to plant, to irrigate land, and to care for crops.
What are almanacs?
500
This ruler helped build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
500
A story about a legendary king who set out to find everlasting life.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
Mesopotamians invented this bronze-tipped tool for famers to turn the soil more easily.
What is a plow?
500
Describe the social of classes in Sumerian society.
TOP- King & his family, nobles, priests, & military leaders MIDDLE- Merchants, scribes, craftworkers, & farmers BOTTOM- Slaves
500
A measure of land area, which meant "the field," equivalent to about 37,600 sq. ft.
What is an "iku"?
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