People of the Fertile Crescent
Inventions and Achievements
Sumer
Geography of the Fertile Crescent
ETC.
100
The greater leader of Babylon. Created the first set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi
100
First set of laws
What is Hammurabi's Code
100
The invention of irrigation allowed for farmers to produce an overabunce of food.
What is surplus
100
The two rivers in the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
100
People who perform or lead religious ceremonies
What is a priest
200
Known for their purple dyed fabrics.
Who are the Phonecians
200
First writing system
What is cunieform
200
A type of arrangment where work could be divided into different tasks.
What is division of labor
200
A large arc of rich, fertile, farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent
200
Division of society by rank
What is social hierarchy
300
Leader of the Akkadian Empire. First emperor
Who is Sargon
300
A way of supplying water to area of land. Created by the Sumerians.
What is irrigation
300
The two rivers that the people of Sumer settled around.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
300
Mesopotamia's current name.
What is Iraq
300
Picture or symbols
What is pictographs
400
The empire that created the chariot.
Who are the Hittities and Kassites
400
The human made waterways used to help with irrigation.
What are canals
400
The entire area that an empire rules.
What is it's city-state
400

Rich soil and tiny rocks

Silt

400
Long poems to tell stories of heros
What is an epic
500
The world's first civilization.
Who are the Sumerians
500
A large structure built as a temple.
What is a ziigurat
500
Worshipping many gods.
What is polytheism
500
These developed due to an increase in food production.
What are cities
500

Sumerian writer

Scribe
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