Beliefs
Writing
Mesopotamia
Inventions
Farming
100
Religious temples in the middle of their major cities.
What places did mesopotamians build for the gods to live in?
100
Another meaning of mesopotamia
What is "land between two rivers"?
100
Invention that helped them transport supplies and trade faster.
What is the wheel?
100
Metal that made farming easier.
What is bronze?
200
Bird heads and human bodies.
What do demons and monsters look like?
200
Where writing originates.
What is Kish?
200
Tigris and Euphrates.
What are the 2 rivers around mesopotamia?
200
Thing that helped them farm faster.
What is the plow?
200
Tool that made farming easier.
What is the hoe?
300
Second form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
300
Sumer and Sumerian cities.
Where did the ziggurat spread first?
300
Invention that helped keep track of time.
What is the calendar?
300
Flowing water to water the plants.
What is the irrigation system?
400
First way of recording things.
What is pictograms?
400
The name of ziggurats before they became religious.
What is tells?
400
Problem with the irrigation system.
It was downhill so it eroded the soil and destroyed the crops.
500
Belief in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
500
Over 700.
How many writing signs did mesopotamia have?
500
Reconstructed religious buildings.
What are ziggurats?
500
The god Enlil sent it down to earth and was discovered stuck in a rock.
How was the pickaxe believed to be discovered?
500
Side effects of the irrigation system.
What are the minerals were washed out of the soil by the irrigation system and drowned and killed the plants.
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