Achievements
This invention was originally discovered by making pottery.
What is the wheel?
The belief in many Gods.
What is Polytheism?
This large body of water was a Mesopotamian trade route.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This person is a professional writer and keeps records for kings & priest.
What is a scribe?
This is the number of laws in Hammurabi's Code.
What is 281?
This invention/discovery made settling in one place possible.
What is farming/agriculture/domestication?
Gilgamesh was believed to be this much of a god (what fraction?).
What is 2/3?
People were attracted to the Fertile Crescent for this reason.
What is good cropland?
This was used as a signature.
What is a cylinder seal?
This is a great stone for trading.
What is lapis lazuli?
This invention could only travel one way, then had to be taken apart and carried back!
What is a boat (guffa)?
Ishtar was the goddess of this/these.
What is love and war?
Sumer was located in the northern Mesopotamian region.
True or false?
What is False?
This word means "land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
Mesopotamia was in this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
This structure was represented in the form of an 8 foot tall stela.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Sumerians believed that the gods used the top of ziggurats to sleep in at night.
True or False?
What is True?
Name two things the clay from near the rivers was used for.
What are buildings & writing tablets?
This is a nickname for Mesopotamia.
What is the "Cradle of Civilization?"
The Euphrates River runs through this city-state:
What is Babylon?
This is a Mesopotamian invention later developed by the Romans.
What is the arch?
The Great Flood story is also known as this:
What is Noah's Ark?
The source of the Euphrates River is in these mountains.
What are the Taurus?
These were formed with their own god/goddess, own government & own king.
What is a city-state?
King Nebuchadnezzar had these built for his homesick wife.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?