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100
The wild man that Kalgamesh befriended.
Who is Enidku?
100
Taurus and Zagros
What are two mountain regions in Ancient Mesopotamia?
100
God Gave Moses these on Mt. Sinai.
What were the Ten Commandments?
100
The place God told Abraham to take the Israelites.
Where is Canaan?
100
40 years.
How long did the Israelites stay in the wilderness before entering Canaan?
200
It was faster to write than pictographs.
What was the reason cuneiform developed?
200
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
What was a set of laws that applied to everyone and was written on clay tablets throughout the Babylonia Empire?
200
Present day Iraq.
What present day country was Mesopotamia located?
200
The Sumerians
Who created cuneiform?
200
The Land Between Two Rivers is the translation of this in Greek.
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
300
Food and wine.
What were offered to the gods on top of the ziggurats?
300
A Sumerian mythical hero.
Who was Gilgamesh?
300
A belief in many gods and goddesses?
What is polytheism?
300
It protected the cities and served as a place for farmers to sell their produce in a central location.
What were two reasons for building walls around Sumerian cities?
300
His strategy was to dam the Euphrates, controlling the water flow so he could weaken the Sumerians.
What was the strategy Hammurabi used to weaken the Sumerians?
400
Develop a form of writing that changed from pictographs to cuneiform
What was a way to keep track of farm supplies and surplus?
400
King of Kish
Who was Sargon?
400
Wheels, sailboats, harps, frying pan, razor, kilns, and bronze hand tools.
What wereinventions by the Sumerians?
400
There was a demand for beautiful glass pieces.
Why did the art of glass making spread to Egypt, Europe, and China?
400
An agreement between two parties in which each party makes commitments.
What is a covenant?
500
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
500
The Torah
What are the sacred writing that form the heart of Judaism?
500
The Tigris and Euphrates
What were the two rivers in ancient Mesopotamia?
500
Canal systems
What did the Mesopotamians use to control dangerous flooding, making their land productive?
500
Water and silt
What did the Tigris and Euphrates provide for Mesopotamia?
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