Sumer
City-States
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Map & Empires
100
Based on its name, Mesopotamia is______.
What is land between two rivers
100
What did Sumerians invent that made it possible for their armies to use chariots.
What is wheels
100
Skills that make life easier
What is technology
100
wedge shaped symbols for writing
What is Cuneforms
100
This Empire Ruled Sumer but kept many of the conquered Sumerians culture
Who is Akkad
200
Sumerians used levees, canals and dams to ________.
What is control the water in the valley
200
What evidence shows that Sumerians were part of history and not prehistory
What is written law (they had a form of writing)
200
Temple made of mud bricks
What is ziggurats
200
Region in Mesopotamia where the first city-states were located
What is Sumer
200
This empire ruled out of fear and their well trained army
Who are the Assyrians
300
This happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems.
What is they had to work together
300
Hammurabi is best known for
What is code of laws (having the laws written down)
300
bringing water to crops
What is irrigation
300
The Empire in which Women and slaves had more rights than in most ancient societies
What is Babylonian
300
"Moon shaped" area of land that is ideal for farming
What is Fertile Crescent
400
Why didn't Sumerians continue living in small villages as their ancestors did?
What is they had to work together to maintain the irrigation system.
400
After the fall of Sumer, all three mesopotamian empires has this problem.
What is they were too large to control
400
A conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler.
What is empire
400
someone who writes something for someone else
What is scribes
400
Egypt's relative location to Mesopotamia
What is Southwest
500
Irrigation systems and plows helped provide Sumerians with________.
What is stable food supply
500
This Empire was unusually fair for it's time because of its laws
Who is Babylonia
500
earliest known form of flood control
What is levees
500
Belief in multiple gods
What is polytheism
500
Modern day country that most of Mesopotamia is located in.
What is Iraq
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