Name It!
Inventions
Society
Potpourri
Picture this!
100
In Greek, it means “land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A system of writing that used a stylus and wedge-shaped imprints.
What is cuneiform?
100
A complex society with many different characteristics, such as a working government, laws, and social classes.
What is a civilization?
100
The majority of people had this job in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are peasant farmers?
100
Name those rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
The study of past events.
What is history?
200
Wheel, plow, beer, writing system...
What are Mesopotamian inventions?
200
An early area that was like a small, independent nation with its own laws and government.
What is a city-state?
200
Translated from ancient cuneiform, this structure means "mountain of god."
What is the Ziggurat?
200
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Sumerian.
What are Mesopotamian empires?
300
A person who writes.
What is a scribe?
300
A way to divert (or bring) water to land.
What is irrigation?
300
Area of land that created a moon shape from Egypt to Mesopotamia allowing for agriculture.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
One of the most important tools of agriculture, it was used for cutting furrows in the soil, and especially to prepare for the planting of seeds.
What is a plow?
300
Name this Sumerian king.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
One of the first codes of law to be written down.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The way people spend and make money.
What is an economy?
400
This form of confinement for committing a crime did not exist as a type of punishment.
What are prison sentences?
400
This was used to build structures in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are sun-baked clay bricks?
500
Exchange of goods and services without using money.
What is bartering?
500
Sumerians inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood.
What is the wheel?
500
The beliefs, customs, foods, traditions, education, arts, and behaviors of a group of people.
What is culture?
500
3000 BCE is this many years ago.
What is 5,022 years ago?
500
Name them.
Who are Hammurabi and Shamash (sun god)?