Fertile Crescent
Vocabulary
Farmers
Sumer
Religion
100
This gave rulers control of water flow downstream.
What is a dam?
100
The laws given by God to Moses at Mt. Sinai.
What is the Ten Commandments?
100
The staple crops.
What is wheat and barley?
100
A large building with a temple on top.
What is a Ziggurat.
100
A belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
200
The Tigris and Euphrates River begin here.
What is the Taurus Mountains
200
A large temple building with a temple on top.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The part of Mesopotamia where farming was done.
What is Southern Mesopotamia.
200
A self-governing city and its surrounding villages.
What is a city-state?
200
The first books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is The Torah?
300
Positive effects of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flooding, a rich soil.
What is silt?
300
Long periods without rain.
What is a drought?
300
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
What is erosion?
300
The Sumerians' belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
300
The religion of the Jewish people.
What is Judaism?
400
Negative cause of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flooding.
What is destruction of crops, homes, and lives?
400
Often at a war, a _______________ would protect itself against attack with thick walls.
What is a city-state?
400
Producing more crops than they can consume for themselves is called ____________.
What is surplus crops?
400
Sargon used this to send his laws throughout his empire.
What is cuneiform writing?
400
A scattering of people.
What is Jewish Diaspora?
5000

Ancient Mesopotamia became a desert, that is now in present day __________.

What is Iraq?

5000
Farming was mad possible in dry area by the use of __________.
What is irrigation?
5000
Water was moved through the mountains to the city through an _________________.
What is aqueduct?
5000
Other than writing this was a major invention of the Sumerians.
What is the wheel?
5000
The people who respected Babylon's culture so much that they collected large libraries of Sumerian and Babylonian text.
Who are the Assyrians?
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