Geography
Social Structure
Achievements
Four Empires
Misc.
100
Mesopotamia is located between two rivers. What are the names of these two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
Who is in charge of each city-state?
King
100
Sumerians developed this to help carry items over long distances. What is the achievement?
Wheel
100
Nebuchadnezzer II was a leader of which empire?
Neo-Babylonia
100
Sumerian religious temples are called what?
Ziggurats
200
Mesopotamia is located in the fertile crescent. What makes the land in Mesopotamia fertile?
Annual flooding from snow in the surrounding mountains.
200
Which class of people are the only that can speak with the gods?
Priests
200
What was the first empire in the world?
Akkadia
200
Which empire made its capital Ninevah?
Assyrian Empire
300
Sumerians were able to farm in the middle of a desert. What did they develop to allow them to farm in such a harsh climate?
Irrigation System
300
Priests share the second highest position on the social structure with what other group of people?
Land Owners
300
The Neo-babylonians created what device that led to the 60-minute day and the -day week?
Sundial
300
Who was the greatest leader of the Akkadian Empire?
Sargon the Great
300
The Neo-Babylonians wanted to make Babylon a beautiful city. They built a temple and what other structure to achieve this?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
400
Due to the tough soil in Mesopotamia, people needed additional tools to help them farm. What is one advancement in technology that helped farming?
Plow
400
In ancient Babylon, what group of people were allowed to earn wages and and buy their freedom?
Slaves
400
Sumerians wrote in Cuneiform on wet clay tablets. To do this, they needed to write with what tool?
Stylus
400
Why is a law code, like Hammurabi's, an important achievement?
Provides written laws for people to follow.
400
Cueniform started out as a series of pictures that represented objects. What is a picture that represents an object called?
Pictograph
500
Mesopotamia is located in what modern day country?
Iraq
500
Why were kings so powerful in their city-states?
Believed they were chosen by the gods.
500
What two inventions allowed Sumerians to trade in more areas?
Wheel and Sail
500
Which empire had Marduk as their supreme god?
Babylonian
500
The Assyrians developed these channels to bring water from distant places. What are they called?
Aqueducts
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