Vocabulary
Geography
Inventions/
Accomplishments
Daily Life/
Religion
Rulers
100
This word means "between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
100
These two landforms gave Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
This is the world's first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
The Sumerians practiced this type of religion, which means to worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
This ruler is legendary because he had an epic written about him.
Who is Gilgemesh?
200
This is a large arc of rich, fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
If you live in this type of area, you live in the countryside.
What is rural?
200
This Sumerian invention still impacts the world today.
What is the wheel?
200
This is one of the Mesopotamian's religious beliefs.
1. That their gods had enormous powers. 2. That their duty was to serve and worship the gods. 3. That success or failure depends on pleasing the gods. 4. That when people die they go into the ground and eat dirt or turn to dirt.
200
This ruler was a very powerful leader of the Akkadian empire.
Who is Sargon?
300
This is a pyramid-shaped temple for worshipping the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
300
This unit consisted of a city and all the countyside around it.
What is a city-state?
300
This is a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle.
What is a chariot?
300
This is the social order or hierarchy of the classes of people in Mesopotamia.
Upper class: kings and priests Middle class: workers Lower class: slaves
300
This ruler was a brilliant war leader who developed the world's first written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
If you have this, you have more than you need.
What is a surplus?
400
This empire was home to the world's first civilization.
What is the Sumerian Empire?
400
This Sumerian invention greatly increased farm production.
What is the plow?
400
These people served as a link between the Sumerians and the gods.
What are priests?
400
This ruler's daughter was the first known female writer in history.
Who is Sargon?
500
This is a type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?
500
This is a list of the 5 major empires.
What is : Sumerian Akkadian Babylonian Assyrian Persian
500
This invention spins clay as a craftsperson shapes it into a bowl.
What is a potter's wheel?
500
This is the name of one of the main gods that the Sumerians worshiped.
What is : 1. Enlil 2. Enki 3. Inanna
500
This Chaldean king rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city and according to legend, his grand palace featured the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzer?
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