Civics
Let's Get Oriented
Potpourri
Mesopotamia
Accomplishments
100

The president is part of this branch of government

What is the executive?

100

Lines of ______ help determine time zones

What is longitude?

100

Unitary, federal, and confederate are examples of these

What are government structures?

100

The land between two rivers is called

What is Mesopotamia?

100

Known for creating a set of laws

Who is Hammurabi?

200

The legislative branch is made up a

What is a Congress?

200

Lines of ______ run east and west on the map

What is latitude?

200

To make suitable to work with humans is this

What is to domesticate?

200

Scribes from Mesopotamia would use this system of writing

What is cuneiform?

200

This group is known for creating roads to connect their empire

Who are the Assyrians?

300

The Congress is in charge of ____ laws. 

What is making or writing?

300

A type map that shows boundaries and border

What is a political map?

300

A social scientist who studies human culture is called this

What is an anthropologist?

300

This group of people were known for collecting money in the form of tributes

Who are the Assyrians?

300

Large temples are called

What is a ziggurat? 

400

The Senate and the House of Representatives is part of the

What is the Congress / Legislative Branch? 

400

1000 years is also known as a

What is a millennium?

400

Northeast, southwest are examples of these type of directions

What are intermediate?

400

This empire rebuilt Babylon and had a large empire

Who are the Chaldeans?

400

The person to unite Mesopotamia

Who is Sargon?

500

The Supreme Court is in charge of _____

What is interpreting?

500

In the year of or lord is abbreviated in these two letters

What is AD?

500

A large area of land / territory controlled by a ruler from a country

What is an empire?

500

These two rivers serve as two important geographic features in Mesopotamia?

What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

500

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were rebuilt by this group 

Who are the Chaldeans?

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