Geography
People
Achievements
Religion
Social Structure
100
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
He wrote the 1st Code of laws?
Who is Hammurabi?
100
This was first used to keep track of trade.
What is cuneiform writing?
100
The place where Sumerians went to worship.
What is ziggurat?
100
This person was at the very top of the social hierarchy pyramid.
What is the king?
200
Annual flooding left behind this fertile soil.
What is silt?
200
He is the world's first emperor.
Who is King Sargon?
200
This increased farm production and made farming easier.
What is the plow?
200
The Sumerians believed in many gods. This is ?
What is polytheism?
200
This group of people was at the very bottom of the social hierarchy pyramid.
What is slaves?
300
Mesopotamia is referred to as this because of the good farmland in the shape of an arc.
What is the fertile crescent?
300
He was the king of Babylon?
Who is Hammurabi?
300
This making working with clay easier for artisans.
What is the wheel?
300
The top of the ziggurat was only for these people who ruled the city-state.
What are the priests?
300
This occupation could either be upper class or middle class depending upon whom you worked for.
What are scribes?
400
The land between the rivers reached from the Mediterranean Sea to the what?
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
He was a legendary Sumerian king that had an epic written about him.
What is Gilgamesh?
400
The 1st set of written laws for everyone to see.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The people believed the gods had the power over this.
What is nature?
400
Name one occupation that would be in the middle class.
What are merchants, farmers, artisans, or fishermen?
500
Snow would melt from these mountains providing water to the Tigris and Euphrates.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
500
He created a road and postal system throughout his vast empire.
Who is King Sargon?
500
Because people couldn't write, this was used as a way for people to see who owned something. Each was different.
What is a cylinder seal?
500
Each city-state believed one god was their____________
What is protector?
500
Name one that is below the king.
What are priests, warriors, or government officials?
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