Geography of the Fertile Crescent
The Rise of Sumer
Sumerian Achievements
Later Peoples of the Fertile Crescent
Mystery Questions
100
An arrangement which each worker has a special job.
What is division of labor?
100
The people who performed religious ceremonies.
What is a priest?
100
A pyramid-shaped temple.
What is a ziggurat?
100
A famous Babylonian king who built the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
100
The people at the top of the social hierarchy ladder.
Who is a king?
200
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that is good to help with farming.
What is silt?
200
The countryside
What is rural?
200
A Sumerian invention.
What is the wheel or plow?
200
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
200
Who built the first empire and had the first permanent standing army.
Who is Sargon?
300
A way of supplying and controlling water to bring to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
300
A city and all of the countryside around it
What is a city-state?
300
The science of building.
What is architecture?
300
A set of letters that the Phoenicians created.
What is the alphabet?
300
an area of rich fertile farmland in Mesopotamia where the first civilizations began
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
more food than needed, an abundance of food
What is surplus?
400
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
400
A writer who kept records.
What is a scribe?
400
A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle.
What is a chariot?
400
A long poem about one or more heroes.
What is an epic?
500
A human-made water way
What is a canal?
500
The division of society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy?
500
The world's first system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
A first set of laws written down
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
A legendary figure in Sumerian literature and a hero of a poem.
What is Gilgamesh?
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