Geography
Key Terms
Key People
Achievements
100
A large area of rich, fertile farm land
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Oldest system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
He wrote the first law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The most significant Sumerian invention.
What is the wheel?
200
Mesopotamia means this
What is the land between the rivers?
200
Name for people who wrote ancient writing.
What is a scribe?
200
Hero of the world's oldest epic.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
A wheeled, horse drawn battle cart.
What is a chariot?
300
The two rivers Mesopotamia is between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
A city and the land surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
300
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
A set of letters that can be combined to form words.
What is an alphabet?
400
Where the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
400
People who served as the link between the Sumerians and the Gods.
Who are priests?
400
A device that the Sumerians used to write on clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
500
The mesopotamians dug these to suppy water to an area of land.
What are canals?
500
A large area of farmland.
What is a rural area?
500
United city-states to create the first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
500
The well known resource of the Phoenicians.
What is cedar wood?
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