Geography
Kingdoms
Legacy
Iraq today
Wild Card
100
Rivers that supply Mesopotamia with fertile soil.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The kingdom where the first cities--like Ur and Eridu--appeared in around 3500 B.C.E.
What is Sumer?
100
A new script that Sumerians developed since pictographs were hard to create.
What is cuneiform?
100
Dictator of Iraq for over 20 years.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
100
A complex society.
What is a civilization?
200
A modern-day country where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq?
200
The kingdom whose leader developed a code that regulated divorce, contracts, fees, treatment, and commerce.
Who are the Babylonians?
200
A system to improve agriculture.
What is irrigation?
200
Over 30 million of these dangerous items were along the Iraq border in 2007.
What are land mines?
200
A king who built his wife something special because she missed her homeland of Persia.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
The place that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of Mesopotamia flow into from the Taurus Mountains.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
The first Mesopotamians to organize their army into regular units of uniform size.
Who are the Assyrians?
300
An administrative and religious center where early leaders oversaw their cities.
What is a ziggurat?
300
The person who the Shi'ites believed that the leader of Islam should be a descendant of.
Who is Muhammad?
300
Examples of this include: the wheel, the plow, cuneiform, the stylus, and the battering ram.
What is technology?
400
Mesopotamia had value to the British due to it's geographic location.
What is a land route to Asia?
400
The kingdom who ruled for the longest amount of time.
Who are the Sumerians?
400
An order that developed due to the division of labor.
What is hierarchy?
400
Through these acts, radical (extreme-believing) Islam began a war against the west.
What is terrorism?
400
A form of government where religious leaders are in control.
What is theocracy?
500
Three (3) other names for the land called Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent, Iraq, or the Middle East?
500
People whose polytheistic religion included the gods of Enlil, Enki, and Ki.
Who are the Sumerians?
500
A modern one of these is Vatican City in Italy.
What is a city-state?
500
People who wanted Saddam Hussein to be removed from leadership of Iraq aside from the U.S.
Who are the Kurdish people?
500
People who are extremely important to the growth and expansion of a civilization's economy.
Who are merchants?
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