Geography
City-States
Achievements
Daily Life
First Empires
100
A new layer of soil and rock deposition along a river.
What is silt.
100
One of the four successful Sumerian city-states.
What is Ur, Kish, Uruk, or Eridu.
100
These books contained advice on farming, irrigation, and caring for plants.
What are almanacs?
100
The location where most interaction, trade, and activity occurred in the city.
What is near the ziggurat.
100
Payment from one ruler to another.
What are tributes?
200
The body of water the two rivers eventually flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf
200
governing system ruled by a king or queen
What is a monarchy?
200
The method of planting underneath tall trees for protection.
What is shade planting?
200
The ruler who changed the laws to "if-then" format.
What is Who is Ur-Nammu?
200
The first Sumerian king.
Who is Sargon the first?
300
The mountains where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers originate.
What is the Taurus Mountains.
300
Below the kings, _________ were the next most important people in society.
What are priests?
300
A measurement meaning "the field."
What is an iku (ikum)?
300
Powerful people who wrote down records, letters, and stories.
What is scribes.
300
The king who wrote down the code of 282 laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
Basins, dikes, and dams were examples of _________ techniques.
What is irrigation.
400
The method of safe travel through groups.
What are caravans?
400
The largest and tallest building in the city-states.
What are ziggurats?
400
The third level of their social class.
What is slaves?
500
The names of the first two civilizations in Southern Mesopotamia.
What is Ubaid and Sumerian
500
The number of miles Ur is away from the Euphrates River
What is 12 miles?
500
The base of the Sumerian number system.
What is the number sixty?
500
The approximate number of deities the Sumerians worshipped.
What are thousands?
500
The Assyrian's created the world's first systems of ________ roads and ______ system.
What are paved roads and the postal system?
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