Early Mesopotamia
Sumer
Later Mesopotamian Empires
Contributions
Grab Bag
100
Groups of people moving around is known as this.
What is migrating?
100
Wedge-shaped Sumerian writing system.
What is cuneiform?
100
Period of power.
What is reign?
100
Contribution towards farming.
What is the plow?
100
Person who is skilled in writing.
What is a scribe?
200
Raised levels of soil.
What are levees?
200
A Sumerian city and its surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
200
What Hammurabi is best known for.
What is his code of laws?
200
Contribution towards transportation.
What is the wheel?
200
Person who is skilled in a craft.
What is an artisan?
300
Buildings were made from this.
What are mud bricks?
300
Sumerian temple with many levels.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Hammurabi let the people keep their own way of life, or their own _______________.
What is culture?
300
Organized system of laws.
What is a code?
300
Legendary hero of Sumerian culture.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
Modern day Mesopotamia is this country.
What is Iraq?
400
Middle class contained these people.
What is artisans and shopkeepers?
400
Chief city of Hammurabi's empire.
What is Babylon?
400
Contribution based on the moon.
What is a 12 month calendar?
400
Extra products.
What is surplus?
500
The two rivers bounding Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
Sumerian leaders were known as this.
What are priest-kings?
500
Ruler who created first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
500
Nickname give to the Hammurabi's reign.
What is The Golden Age of Babylon?
500
The rights of women.
What is buy and sell property?
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