This is who won in the battle over land and water.
What is Sumer?
100
barley
What is the best grain crop grown in the fertile crescent in the past and present?
100
The 2 main City-State empires in early Mesopotamia.
What are Sumer and Akkad?
100
Farmers stared planting inthe Fertile Crescent at about this time.
What is 5000 BC?
100
Cuneiform
What is a writing system formed in wet clay with a stylus?
200
Each city was believed to be under the protection of this.
What is a god?
200
This is what Sumer and Akkad fought over.
What is land and water?
200
Sumerian temples were called this and built here.
What is ziggurat and at the highest point of the city?
200
This is when villages started to develop and people came here to live because of the fertile ground.
What is 3500 BC?
200
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
Kings were chosen this way.
What is by the gods to carry out their wishes?
300
This is what most city-states were surrounded by and what Sumerian houses were built of.
What are mud bricks?
300
This city-state rose up and took control of Mesopotamia from 2100BC to 2000 BC and was the last and most successful dynasty. later falling to invaders around 2000 BC.
What is Ur?
300
Sumerian houses were painted this color to stay cool and reflect the sun's rays.
What is white?
300
A group of people in a complex, organized society.
What is a civilization?
400
Gilgamesh
Who is the legendary king of Uruk that may have just been a folktale?
400
Divine kinship.
What is the god-given right for a family to rule?
400
The four bodies of water in between the Fertile Crescent lies.
What are the Tigris River, the Euphrates River, the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This is what Sumerians believed the gods and goddesses did for them.
What is be responsible for the well-being of the people and the fertility of the land?
400
An empire.
What is a large territory of many places all under one ruler?
500
This Akkadian king conquered all of Mesopotamia and put all city-states under one ruler in 2334 BC.
Who is Sargon?
500
High Priestess.
What is the job kings began to give their daughters after Sargon ruled?
500
The five current countries that make up the Fertile Crescent.