People
Inventions
Writing
Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
100

People from the area of Sumer were called this.

What are Sumerians?

100

What civilization is known for creating taxation?

Babylonians

100

They Sumerian style of writing is called this.

What is cuneiform?

100
The name "Mesopotamia" means this.
What is "between two rivers"?
100

The use of connected ditches, canals, or pipes to move water to dry areas.

irrigation

200
These people lived closest to the ziggurats in Sumerian cities.
Who are the priests or the wealthy people?
200

This civilization was known for creating the first postal system. 

Assyrians

200
The people of Mesopotamia wrote on tablets made of this.
What is clay?
200
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200

Carts drawn by horses and used to carry soldiers

chariots

300

What is an en?

a king

300

What civilization was known for creating paved roads?

Assyrians

300
Professional writers.
What are scribes?
300

Mesopotamia is also sometimes called this because of its land.

"Fertile Crescent" 

300

governing system ruled by a king or queen

monarchy

400

What were ziggurats built for?

So Sumerians could pray to their gods.

400
This invention helped with transportation and making pottery.
What is the wheel?
400
They wrote with a tool made from a sharpened reed called this.
What is a stylus?
400

A land once called Mesopotamia is now what present-day country?

Iraq

400

People grouped by level of importance in society

social classes

500
This ruler established a code of law and a justice system in Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
500

Sumerians developed this based on the cycles of the moon.

calendar?

500
They symbols used in early forms of picture writing are called this.
What are pictographs?
500

Name the three civilizations we've discussed within Mesopotamia.

Assyrians, Babylonians, and Sumerians

500

A society with developed forms of religion, governing, and learning.

civilization

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