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Mesopotamia
Technology
Math, Science and the Arts
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The arc shaped fertile land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Southwest Asia
What is the location of Mesopotamia?
100
The basic Sumerian building material...
What is mud bricks?
100
Sumerians developed a math system based on ...
What is the number 60?
100
In order for Sumer to thrive as a civilization they needed to travel for these specific commodities...
What is wood, tin, copper and lapis lazuli?
200
The division of society by rank is known as
What is Social hierarchy?
200
The two physical features that gave Mesopotamia its name as the Fertile Crescent
The Tigris River and the Euphrates River
200
The world's first system of writing, using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
200
These were carved into round stones and then rolled over clay to leave their mark
What is Cylinder seals?
200
Wheat discovered growing wildly in Mesopotamia.
What is Einkorn Wheat?
300
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
They needed a way to control the river's flow.
Why did Mesopotamians build an irrigation system?
300
An important Sumerian development used to develop carts and chariots.
What is the wheel?
300
The 12 month calendar was based on
What are the cycles of the moon?
300
The oldest known story ever recorded
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
The basic political unit of Sumer
What is city-state?
400
King who established the first Sumerian Empire.
Who is Sargon?
400
This was pulled by oxen and broke through the hard clay soil of Sumer to prepare it for planting.
What is the plow?
400
This was the first military vehicle
What is a chariot ?
400
Lapis Lazuli was imported from present day...
What is Afghanistan?
500
Kept track of the items people traded, and were hired by Government officials and temples to keep records.
What are scribes?
500
This city was not a Sumerian city-state
What is Akkad?
500
This metal was used for tools and weapons was made out of copper and tin
What is bronze?
500
Created pottery...
What is the potter's wheel?
500
City-states often went to war over this...
What is farmland?
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