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100
This region between the Tigris and Euphrates river is sometimes know as this.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
12,000 years ago hunter-gathers first settled in this place.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
These long poems of heroes were first started in early Mesopotamia.
What is an epic?
100
This is a way to supply water to a area of land that was started in the fertile crescent.
What is irrigation?
100
These people were used to write down trade and records in Mesopotamia.
What is a scribe?
200
This large arc of rich, fertile farmland in Asia and the Persian Gulf is great for civilization.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
These first appeared between 4000 and 3000 BC in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Cities?
200
This early communication used picture symbols.
What is pictographs?
200
Mesopotamians often had more food then they need or this.
What is a surplus?
200
This person preformed religious ceremonies and had great status in the fertile crescent.
What is a priests?
300
This mix of rich soil and tiny rocks floods the lands around the Mesopotamia every year.
What is silt?
300
These people developed the first civilization in southern Mesopotamia.
What is The Sumerians?
300
Early Mesopotamians practiced this kind of worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
Sargon brought together the first land with different territories and people under a single rule or this.
What is an empire?
300
This is ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
400
The word Mesopotamia is Greek for this.
What is "between the rivers"?
400
This king became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
What is Gilgamesh?
400
This is the division of society by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
400
This pyramid shaped temple rose above each city in early Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Early Mesopotamians used gold, silver, and gems to make this early form of wearable art.
What is jewelry?
500
Many of the people in Mesopotamia lived in the country or this type of region , not in a city or town.
What is rural?
500
This large city in Mesopotamia was a great trade and port around 2000 BC.
What is UR?
500
Mesopotamia was a good spot for art , metalwork , and this science of building.
What is architecture?
500
This was the law of land or the code to live by in early Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's code?
500
It would be hard driving today if it were not for this. One Mesopotamians greatest inventions.
What is the wheel?
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