VOCABULARY
GEOGRAPHY
PEOPLE
PLACES
MISCELLANEOUS
100
A self-governing city that governs surrounding villages.
What is a city-state?
100
The two main rivers in the area.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The names of people who were the record keepers in ancient Sumer.
Who were the scribes?
100
Region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which means "land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A system of writing invented in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
200
The belief in MANY gods.
What is polytheism?
200
The body of water these two major rivers flow into is the ____________________________.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
One way Sumerian kings were different than Egyptian pharaohs.
What is Sumerian kings were not considered gods?
200
An area in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
Two materials used by ancient Sumerians to write cuneiform.
What are reed pens and clay tablets?
300
A long period of dry weather, with little of no rainfall.
What is a drought?
300
The mountains where these rivers begin.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
300
The creator of one of the world's oldest codes of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
A country located to the northwest of the Fertile Crescent.
What is Turkey?
300
A reason why it was hard to farm in southern Mesopotamia.
What are droughts and irregular floods?
400
A large building with a temple on its peak.
What is a ziggurat?
400
A large body of water to the west of these rivers.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
The mythical hero of ancient Sumer who was part god and part man.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
The ancient empire located in Northern Mesopotamia.
What is Babylonia?
400
Name three inventions of the Sumerians.
What are the wheel, cuneiform, and ziggurats?
500
A written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government.
What is a code of law?
500
The mountain range that lies east of the the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
500
The king of Kish who united Sumer.
Who is Sargon?
500
The present day countries that the Fertile Crescent covers.
What are Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel?
500
A type of punishment that was found in the Code of Hammurabi.
What is to cut off a son's hand? (Or break the bone of someone, or put out their eye, or throw someone in a river, etc?)
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