KEY TERMS
ODDBALL INFO
PEOPLE
THINGS
PLACES
100
A broad area of high, flat land.
What is a plateau?
100
Football shaped clay container in which tokens were put into.
What was a bulla?
100
He was the King of the City of Uruk.
Who was Gilgamesh?
100
These 2 things surrounded the land of Mesopotamia.
What were the Tigris & Euphrates rivers?
100
Known as the land between 2 rivers.
What was Mesopotamia?
200
Made up of a city and the surrounding villages and farmland that it controlled.
What is a city-state?
200
This Sumerian God ruled the waters.
Who was Enki?
200
I was a king whose name meant "true king."
Who was Sargon?
200
These laws were presented on a stone slab.
What was Hammurabi's Code?
200
Region found on a plain that made up much of the southern half of Mesopotamia.
What was Sumer?
300
People who moved with their flocks and herds.
Who were nomads?
300
A hoofed, horned mammal found in Africa and Asia.
What is a gazelle?
300
They ruled the early city-states suggesting an indication of the primary role that religion played in Sumerian life.
Who were Priests?
300
Allowed farmers to produce a surplus of food.
What was irrigation?
300
This is where Sargon washed his weapons as a sign that he conquered all of Sumer's city-states.
What was the Persian Gulf?
400
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
Jews refused t pay this to the Babylonians.
What were taxes?
400
This group of people believed that their gods controlled everything.
Who were the Sumerians?
400
Invented to break through the hard clay soils of their homelands.
What was the plow?
400
Surrounded by vast walls and beautiful gardens.
What was the city of Babylon?
500
Complete and organized set of laws.
What is code?
500
These 2 elements are mixed together to make bronze such as strong tools and weapons.
What is bronze?
500
This group of people consisted of brick makers, canal bulders, butchers, and potters.
Who were city dwellers?
500
Archaeologists discovered that the Sumerians invented this.
What was writing?
500
World's first 2 cities.
What were Ur and Kish?
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