What are Sumerians who sold themselves into slavery?
100
The name of two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The reason people settled in the Fertile Crescent.
What is fertile land (good soil and water)?
100
The first people in the region to master iron working techniques.
What are the Hittites?
200
A political unit with its own government
What is a city-state?
200
Gods and goddesses here housed here.
What is a Ziggurat?
200
An 'Eye for an Eye' set of rules.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
The people who first used a battering ram.
What are the Assyrians?
300
The worship of many gods.
What is Polytheism?
300
The Sumerians used this from the riverto make this building material.
What is mud and bricks?
300
The year in which Sumer was thought to have developed as a civilization
What is 3500 B.C.?
300
The ruler who created a permanent army.
Who is Sargon?
300
THis first of the Sumerians helps things move.
What is the wheel?
400
The pyramid shaped structure that is the heart of Sumerian life.
What is a Ziggurat?
400
Math system based on this number
What is 60?
400
The body of water found west of Mesopotamia and the mountains to the Northwest.
Must answer both to get points!
What is the Meditteranean Sea and the Taurus Mountains?
400
They made the first paved roads and a postal system.
Who are the Hittites?
500
This is a means of supplying land with water.
What is irrigation?
500
This is something used by the Sumerians to help plan when the rains and seasons were coming for planting their crops.
What is a calendar?
500
The combination of tin and copper makes this.
What is bronze?
500
The best known work of Sumerian literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
This first of the Sumerians began as a way to keep records, the people who did it, and what they used to do it with. You must get all 4 right to be awarded the points.
What is cuneiform, scribes, clay tablets and a stylus?