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Miscellaneous Vocab
100
Two main rivers that circle around Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
100
On these clay tablets, Sumerians wrote advice about farming and planting, and how to care for crops.
What is an almanac?
100
Temples that stood in the center of all city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
100
The name of Hammurabi's laws
What is the code of Hammurabi?
100
A large building in the middle of all the city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The new governing system that came to be used in Sumer.
What is monarchy?
200
Sumerian's writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
200
Ur-Nammu ruled this city-state.
What is Ur?
200
Where Sargon served in the army.
What is Kish?
200
A river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
300
Four city-states inside Sumer.
What is Ur, Kish, Uruk, and Eridu?
300
The types of transportation the Sumerians used.
What is boats and carts?
300
Scribes became very powerful for this reason.
What is recording information?
300
Sargon made this his capital after he conquered Mesopotamia.
What is Akkad?
300
A high, flat area.
What is a plateau?
400
The amount of mud found under the royal tombs of Ur.
What is Eight feet of mud?
400
The amount of square feet in an iku.
What is 37,600
400
Nature gods.
What is deities?
400
They created the chariot.
Who are the Hittites?
400
A style of building.
What is architecture?
500
The Madans lived here.
What is South Iraq?
500
The method in which people planted crops in the shade of tall trees to protect them from the sun and wind.
What is Shade Planting?
500
Two of Sumer's most important gods.
What is Enlil and Enki?
500
Hammurabi based his writings off of this.
What is fairness?
500
A permanent army.
What is a standing army?
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