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vocabulary
100
These are the two rivers that make up Mesopotamia.
What is Tigris and Euphrates.
100
Why did city-states fight each other for farmland?
What is so they could have enough good landl to grow food.
100
Who is the link between the Sumerians and the gods?
Who is priests
100
What technology did the Hittites and Assyrians use in battle?
What is chariots and iron weapons
100
What does rural mean?
What is the countryside - outside of the city
200
What city-state rose to power after the death of Sargon?
What is Ur.
200
What limited the growth of Sargon's empire?
What is the Syrian Desert.
200
Why were the ziggurats so tall?
What is to honor the gods.
200
What is the Phoenicians main resource?
What is cedar
200
What is polytheism?
What is the belief in many gods.
300
How long ago did the first people settle in Mesopotamia?
What is 12,000 years
300
What king was a legendary figure in Sumerian literature?
Who is Gilgamesh.
300
What did the Sumerians use to make symbols on the clay tablets?
What is stylus out of a reed plant
300
What do Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar have in common?
What is they helped build up Babylon.
300
This is the ruler of an empire
What is a monarch.
400
What is irrigation?
A way to get water to dry areas.
400
Whose army defeated all of the city-states of Sumer and conquered Northern Mesopotamia?
Who is Sargon.
400
In Sumerian culture who were the important religious leaders?
What is women
400
How did the Phoenician alphabet spread?
What is along their trade route.
400
What is cuneiform?
What is a writing that uses wedge shaped symbols.
500
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is a large arc of fertile farmland.
500
What is social hierarchy?
What is your rank or class in society.
500
This is a picture symbol used for communication.
What is a pictograph.
500
What city is located near the present day city Baghdad, Iraq?
What is Babylon
500
This is a poem telling a story usually about a hero.
What is an epic.
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