Vocabulary
Babylonians
Sumerian Achievements
Fertile Crescent
Farming and Cities
100
the worlds first writing system
What is cuneiform
100
Set of 282 laws
What is Hammurabi's Code
100
What was the first type of writing called
What is cuneiform
100
Tigris and Euphrates rivers both brought..............
What is Silt
100
To protect the fields from flooding farmers built
What is river banks
200
Waterways made by humans
What is canals
200
Located near what now is called Baghdad, Iraq
What is Babylon
200
Picture symbols
What is pictographs
200
The land between the Asian Minor and Persian Gulf
What is Mesopotamia
200
Early settlements in Mesopotamia were where
What are river valleys
300
More than someone needed
What is surplus
300
Writer
What is scribe
300
Another term for writer
What is scribe
300
Way of supplying water for a piece of land
What is irrigation
300
Cities in Mesopotamia were
What is political, religious, cultural, and economic
400
Land under one rule
What is empire
400
Intelligent war leader
Who is Hammurabi
400
Sumerians were the first people to create an object like a vehicle
What is The Wheel
400
What type of groups settled in Mesopotamia
What is Hunter-Gathers
400
Mesopotamians built .......to get rainwater that fell from the north
What is large storage basins
500
A central city with countryside around all of it
What is city- state
500
Hammurabi became Babylon's king in what year
What is 1792
500
Long poems about a hero
What is an epic
500
Large Arc of rich or fertile farmland
What is Fertile Crescent
500
Due to an increased amount of food growth, farmers were able to produce what
What is a Food Surplus
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