Fertile Crescent Map 1
Fertile Crescent Map 2
Vocabulary
Farming Tools & Methods
Mesopotamian Civilizations
Maps & Vocab
100
The water body located at the purple #1.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
The name of the river located at pink #1.
What is the Nile River?
100
A skilled person who records information through writing.
What is a scribe?
100
The method of bringing water to dry land through streams, canals, and pipes.
What is irrigation?
100
The ancient civilization that Hammurabi ruled and invented the first set of written laws. Its name means "Gate of God."
What is Babylon?
100
Large territory governed by one emperor.
What is an empire?
200
The water body located at the purple #2.
What is the Caspian Sea?
200
The name of the land area located at pink #2.
What is the Arabian Desert?
200
A poem that tells a story of heroic deeds, fictional and real.
What is an epic?
200
Having more of something than you actually need to survive.
What is a surplus?
200
The ancient civilization that is known for their battle inventions (ex. battering ram and siege tower) and cruel punishments for their enemies.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
200
The name of the river located at the green #.
What is the Jordan River?
300
The water body located at the purple #3.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
The name of the river located at pink #3.
What is the Euphrates River?
300
A system of writing that uses wedge-shaped marks etched into clay.
What is cuneiform?
300
A simple but important invention that is still used today. It helped the Mesopotamians with both farming and travel.
What is a wheel?
300
During this empire's reign, they invented the sun dial, measured the correct length of a year, and had astronomers chart the stars.
What is the Chaldean Empire?
300
The name of the island located at the green *.
What is Cyprus?
400
The water body located at purple #4.
What is the Red Sea?
400
The name of the river at pink #4.
What is the Tigris River?
400
Cities that have their own government and rules for their territory.
What are city-states?
400
Mesopotamians invented this piece of equipment that is attached to an animal, has at least 2 wheels, and is used to carry heavy objects around.
What is a cart?
400
The world's first empire. They used chariots to conquer their enemies and built a system of roads.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
400
This name of an ancient civilization that means "land between rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The water body located at purple #5.
What is the Dead Sea?
500
The name of the mountain range at pink #5.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
500
A small section of territory in an empire.
What is a province?
500
Farming equipment that is pulled by an animal and used to break up soil and dig trenches.
What is a plow?
500
The first civilization. They invented the wheel, writing, plows, and organized religion.
What is Sumer?
500
A pyramid-shaped place of worship. A temple can be found at the top.
What is a ziggurat?