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Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians or Chaldeans
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100
The land between the two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris)
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Form of government with a single ruler, usually a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
100
Belief in the existence of only 1 God.
What is monotheism?
100

1st civilization with 1st writing

Who are the Sumerians?

100
People who trained to read and write.
Who are scribes?
200
The land great for growing that stretches in a crescent shape from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean coast.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
King of Babylon who developed a code of law based on the belief of eye for an eye.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Belief in the existence of more then one god.
What is polytheism?
200
Court system
Who are the Babylonians?
200
The modern day nation where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq?
300
Fertile particles found in the river that when left behind make the soil good for farming.
What is silt?
300
A political division where a city controls itself and the surrounding area.
What is a city-state?
300
Important people in the social pyramid in ancient society that were able to communicate with the gods.
Who are priests?
300

1st empire

Who are the Akkadians?

300
Legendary king who was part man and part god whose best friend was Enkidu.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
Used by the people who lived in Mesopotamia to bring water to the crops on the farms.
What is irrigation?
400

When a king conquers other lands and rules them, he now controls a/an ________________.

What is an empire?

400

Location of their religious building

What is the center of the city-state?

400
Hanging Gardens

Who are the Chaldeans?

400

Name at least 2 Sumerian inventions from your notes.

What are the wheel, seed plow, sail, and metallurgy?

500
The continent Mesopotamia is located on.
What is Asia?
500

Governments have building projects by

What are taxes?

500
The building where the ancient Sumerians went to worship and where the priests worked.
What is a ziggurat?
500

Built a great library.

Who are the Assyrians?

500

Art used for documents or decorations

What are cylinder seals?

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