Agriculture
Inventions or Achievements
Sumer
Empires
Origin of Religion
100
The fertile valled around the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers was highly
What is arable
100
What number did the Sumerians base their measurement system on?
60
100
What is the first Mesopotamian civilization?
Sumer
100
What Mesopotamian empire spanned what is present day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Turket and Iran?
Akkad Empire
100
What is the name of the religion that was founded by Abraham and the descendants are commonly known as Hebrews.
Judaism
200
The area of fertile land in the Middle East became known as the
What is Fertile Cresent
200
The first writing system was called.
What is cuneiform
200
What allowed the Sumerian farmers to produce more crops on larger areas of land?
irrigation
200
Who ruled Babylon?
Hummurabi
200
Who is the prophet that would lead the Jews back to the Promised Land?
Messiah
300
The floods deposited a fine, fertile soil, called
What is silt
300
Writing allowed Mesopotamians to record this permanently.
What is knowledge or history
300
What destroyed Sumerian crops and houses?
Floods
300
What is the single code of laws that applied in all areas of the Babylonian Empire?
Hammurabi's Code
300
What religion follows the teaching of Jesus?
Christianity
400
The fertile river valley was the _____________ of ancient Mesopotamia
What is "birthplace"
400
Who invented the wheel
What is Mesopotamia.
400
What two rivers were responsible for creating fertile farmland and the destruction of the Sumerians?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates
400
Where did the term, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," come from?
Hammurabi's Code
400
What religion began less than 600 years after Christ's death?
Islam
500
Why was the land to the North and South of Mesopotamia unfavorable for civilizations
The North were mountains and the South was a desert.
500
This invention helped civilizations trade easier because routes were traveled by all.
What are roads
500
The Sumerian farmers used what to help them farm, until the broke?
What are clay and copper tools
500
Which Akkadian King ruled from 2334 BCE to 2279 BCE?
Sargon the Great
500
Who heard the Angel Gabriel speaking to him and then started the religion of Islam based on what he heard?
Muhammad
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