Rivers
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Rulers/Societies
Religion
100

Mesopotamia means _________________.

What is "the land between two rivers?"

100

A type of religious temple found in Mesopotamia.

What is a ziggurat?

100
An earthen dam.
What is a dike?
100

The Phoenicians are remembered for their use of this color.

What is purple?

100
The belief in only one god
What is monotheism?
200

The longest river in Mesopotamia. It is the river to the west.

What is the Euphrates?

200

Producing more food that is needed to survive is a _____________.

What is surplus?

200
The ruler of Mesopotamia who used "an eye for an eye" to write his laws and punishments.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The Phoenicians were skilled in their use of this skill to help them trade.
What is sailing?
200
The first important ruler to believe in only one god.
Who is Abraham?
300

The area fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the ___________.

What is Fertile Crescent?

300

Wedge-shaped letters on soft clay tablets.

What is cuneiform?

300
The dude who parted the Red Sea.
Who is Moses?
300
The Lydians became the first civilization to use _______ as a form of trade.
What is coined money?
300
Created and displayed the Ten Commandments.
Who is Moses?
400

The Tigris and Euphrates dropped ___________, a rich mixture of rocks and soil, on the land after they flooded.

What is silt?

400
A person in Sumeria whose job it was to write.
What is a scribe?
400
The growing of plants for the purpose of farming.
What is agriculture?
400
The first known conqueror of all of Mesopotamia.
What is Sargon (the Conqueror)?
400
The five books of the Jewish bible.
What is Torah?
500

Farmers in Mesopotamia got water for their fields by what innovation?

What is irrigation?

500
A type of government with a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
500
In Mesopotamia, a city and all the farmland surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
500
These people ruled Mesopotamia fiercely after the fall of Hammurabi.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
The belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
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