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100

The land between the two rivers.

What is Mesopotamia?

100

A person who is chosen by an emperor to rule over a province or land under his control.

What is a governor?

100
Belief in the existence of only 1 God.
What is monotheism?
100
Wheel
Who are the Sumerians?
100

System of Sumerian writing.

What is cuneiform?

200

The name given to the land that was great for growing crops that stretches in a curved 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

First system of laws

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 who were supposed to communicate with the gods.

Who are priests?

300
Calvary
Who are the Assyrians?
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 with other cultures and rules them, he now controls an ________________.

What is an empire?

400

In this religion begun by a Mesopotamian named Abraham that started in ancient times but is still practiced today, people pray in a synagogue and the leader is called a rabbi.

What is Judaism?

400

Used a common currency. 

Who are the Persians?

400
The Sumerians traded grain with other civilizations. This meant grain was __________________.
What is exported?
500

The region of the world that Mesopotamia is located on.

What is the Middle East?

500
Persian king who had many roads built across the empire.
Who is Darius the Great?
500
The building where the ancient Sumerians went to worship and where the priests worked.
What is a ziggurat?
500

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Who are the Phoenicians? 

500
The civilization that developed the worlds first written language, cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians?
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