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100
These are the two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
100
The people of Mesopotamia practiced this religion.
What is polytheism?
100

This was the world's first empire, ____________, and it was led by this king, ________________.

What is Sumer and Sargon?

100
This civilization invented cuneiform, the world's first system of writing.
What is the Sumerians?
100
This empire was feared! They used chariots and battering rams during battle.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
200
The two rivers of the Fertile Crescent start here.
What is the Taurus Mountains?
200
This goddess was the most important goddess for the Mesopotamians.
What is the goddess Ishtar?
200
King Hammurabi often threatened city-states with floods or droughts while he was the ruler of this empire.
What is Babylonia?
200
The civilization was able to grow and develop and become great because of this.
What is surplus crops?
200

This was Sargon's daughter. She was a priestess and a scribe.

Who is Enheduana?

300
Mesopotamia was mostly located in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
300
This man is considered the founder of Judaism.
Who is Abraham?
300
Ashur and Nineveh were the two largest cities in this empire.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
300
These are three things the Sumerians invented.
What are sailboats, irrigation canals, the pottery wheel, cuneiform?
300
This city was destroyed by Babylon and its allies and Assyria never recovered.
What is Nineveh?
400
These were the two most important crops.
What are wheat and barley?
400
After King Solomon's death, the kingdom of Israel was divided into the northern kingdom _____________ and the southern kingdom ________________.
What are Israel and Judah?
400
Sargon led his empire for __________ years. After his death, the city-states started to break away and become self-governing once again.
What is 56?
400
This was the subject of a famous Sumerian epic.
What is Gilgamesh?
400
This city built an aqueduct that carried water from over 30 miles away.
What is Nineveh?
500
The two rivers of Mesopotamia flow in to this.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
King David's son _____________ built this (___________) in Israel.
What is Solomon and a great temple?
500
This city was considered the most important city in all of Mesopotamia. It was a rich and prosperous city that excelled in arts and literature.
What is Babylon?
500
People in Mesopotamia lived in houses made from this.
What is mud brick?
500
This part of Mesopotamia had good farm land, flooded in the fall, and had droughts in the spring.
What is southern Mesopotamia?
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