Key Traits
Geography
Civilizations
Just the Facts
MISC.
100
Examples of this key trait include Ur, Babylon, Lagash, Nineveh, Sumer, and Jerusalem.
What are cities?
100
The present day country where Mesopotamia was located.
What is Iraq?
100
The site of the first civilization ever.
What is Sumer?
100
This allowed people to settle into towns and villages and let civilization begin.
What is farming?
100
They created a simplified alphabet that became the basis of our own.
Who were the Phoenicians?
200
Examples of this key trait include cuneiform and the Phoenician alphabet.
What is writing?
200
Nickname for Mesopotamia because of the rich soil and its shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This group, led by Hammurabi, created the first law code. It became the basis of future law codes.
Who were the Babylonians?
200
To worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
Because they had a complex system of roads, common coins, provinces, satraps, and they allowed people to keep their cultures and ways of life.
How was Persia able to manage its vast empire?
300
Examples of this key trait include scribes, artists, schoolmasters, priests, and punishers.
What are Specialized Workers?
300
The river on the left side of the map. Mesopotamia was located near this river.
What is the Euphrates River?
300
This group were known for being fierce warriors, had the first zoo, and the library at Nineveh.
Who were the Assyrians?
300
Mesopotamians made offerings to the Gods in these temples.
What were ziggurats?
300
The man who conquered and ended the Persian Empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
Examples of this key trait are the sailboat, plow, bronze, and wheeled vehicles.
What is Advanced Technology?
400
The river on the right side of the map. Mesopotamia was along its banks.
What is the Tigris River?
400
This group is known for its astronomy skills and building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who were the Chaldeans?
400
They invented the wheeled vehicle and writing.
Who were the Sumerians?
400
Because its 1,000's of clay tablets helped us to decipher cuneiform and kept the history of this region alive.
Why was the library at Nineveh so important/significant?
500
Examples of this key trait are schools, government, and religion.
What are Complex Institutions?
500
The reason Mesopotamian city-states did not unite as one.
What is they were separated by desert?
500
This group was known for building and managing a vast empire in this region.
Who were the Persians?
500
To worship one god.
What is monotheism?
500
It is Greek for the title of this game.
What is Mesopotamia?
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