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100
It is an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
It is the region in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
100
It is the world's first system of writing; it developed in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
100
It is an ancient city in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River; it was the capital of an Empire.
What is Babylon?
200
It is finely ground fertile soil that is good for growing crops.
What is silt?
200
It is a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
200
It is a picture or symbol.
What is a pictograph?
200
It is a set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
It is a way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
300
It is land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
What is an empire?
300
It is a writer.
What is a scribe?
300
It is a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.
What is a chariot?
400
It is a human-made waterway.
What is a canal?
400
It is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
It is a long poem that tells the stories of heros.
What is an epic?
400
It is a set of letters combined to form words.
What is an alphabet?
500
It is more than something that is needed./It is an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is surplus?/What is division of labor?
500
It is a person who performs religious ceremonies./It is the division of society by rank or class.
What is a priest?/What is social hierarchy?
500
It is the science of building./It is a pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer.
What is agriculture?/What is a ziggurat?
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