Vocabulary
Sumer
Economy
Miscellaneous 1
Miscellaneous 2
100
An item shipped into your country is an example of an
What is import
100
Sumer is important in world history because
What is world's first civilization
100
Economy of early villages and cities based on
What is farming
100
Civilizations appeared near Mesopotamia and Indus Valley because
What is because of water and fertile soil
100
Phoenician alphabet based on
What are sounds
200
The laws of Hammurabi are known as
What is a code
200
Mesopotamia refers to what two rivers
What is Tigris and Euphrates
200
First able to start living in settled communities when
What is domestication
200
Role of the priests
What is communicate with the gods
200
A stone sculpture used by Hammurabi to put his laws on it
What is a stele
300
A city and surrounding territory is called
What is a city-state
300
Used levees, canals and dams for what
What is to control the water
300
Important resources that create a food surplus
What is fertile soil, water and seeds
300
The pattern of Hammurabi's laws
What is Offense, Punishment
300
Type of metal used by the Assyrians
What is iron
400
Sumerian writing is called
What is cuneiform
400
Built large temples to honor their gods called
What is a ziggurat
400
Result of specialization of labor
What is improves the quality of what they made
400
Five themes of geography
What is location, movement, region, place, human environment interaction
400
Leader of the Akkadians
Who is Sargon
500
A payment made to a stronger power is called
What is a tribute
500
This happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems
What is learned to work together
500
An example of economy from the acronym PERSIA
What is agriculture, silt, irrigation, trade, domestication, surplus, barter, specialization of labor
500
Phoenicians are skilled
What are traders
500
Spreading of ideas from one culture to another
What is cultural diffusion
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