Geography
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Religion
Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians or Persians
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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
Wheel
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

What's it mean when the soil is full of nutrients and vitamins?

It is fertile

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
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 and rules them, he now controls a ________________.
What is a empire?
400
In this religion 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 continent Mesopotamia is located on.
What is Asia?
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
Built a great library.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
The civilization that developed the worlds first written language, cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians?
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