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100
What were the names of Mesopotamia's two rivers?
What were the Tigris & Euprates rivers
100
Ruled by one person which has complete control.
What is a monarchy?
100
This was the key to Mesopotamia's economy.
What was a surplus of food?
100
A mud brick temple.
What was a ziggurat?
100
Pictures used as a form of communication.
What was cuneiform?
200
This was used to get water from the river to farm land.
What is a canal.
200
A city ruled by a small group of leaders with a head leader.
What is a city-state?
200
A person who wrote.
What was a scribe?
200
Pleasing their gods meant a great __________ would take place.
What was harvest?
200
This ancient Mesopotamian invention is found on bikes, cars, and airplanes.
What is a wheel?
300
This body of water lies to Mesopotamia's west.
What was the Mediterranean Sea?
300
The person responsible for the code of laws used in ancient Babylon.
What was Hammurabi?
300
The most important social class was made up of ____________.
What were nobles, the king, priests, and other important leaders.
300
Floods would occur when the gods were ___________.
What was angry?
300
A Kindle, iPad, & clay block are all examples of this.
What is a tablet.
400
This modern day country is where Sumer used to be located.
What was Iraq?
400
This is the number of total laws in Hammurabi's Code.
What is 282?
400
People who bought & sold goods.
What were merchants?
400
The god of winds, storm, and rain.
What was Enlil?
400
An important invention that rhymes with peeled tart.
What is wheeled cart?
500
A unit of land measurement that is today called an acre.
What was an iku?
500
This man was the first emperor in the Fertile Crescent region.
What was Sargon? aka Sargon the Conqueror
500
This was done by foot, donkey, wheeled cart, and raft
What is trading?
500
The god of waters and wisdom
What was Ea?
500
3 or more ways Ancient Mesopotamia still influences you & I.
What are writing, reading, wheel, wheeled cart, rules...we have a written language, use vehicles for transportation, & live by rules.
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