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100
The Mesopotamian civilization.
What is a Greek word for between the rivers?
100
The name of the first civilization to settle in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
100
A Pyramid shaped temple that was the center of each city-state.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
The use of a water source to provide water to crops to help them grow.
What is irrigation?
200
Wandering around, not living in one place, moving around to find food and resources.
What is a nomadic?
200
One of the earliest civilizations formed between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
A professional writer who was mainly a wealthy son.
What is a scribe?
200
Another name for the code of laws that were displayed "for the whole town to see"
What is an eye for an eye?
300
The "Code of Hammurabi"
What is a famous system of laws in Mesopotamia?
300
A group of people with a culture and a slightly different language as the Sumerians but the same gods and used cuneiform.
Who are the Babylonians?
300
Mesopotamia formed between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
What Mesopotamia is often referred to and is where some of the earliest human societies began.
What is the cradle of civilization?
400
The Half moon shape region from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf where civilization formed because the land was good for agriculture.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
The hero of Sumerian legends, Gilgamesh.
Who was the first Superhero?
400
An independent city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city state?
400
What is cuneform? A system of writing that uses pictographs and symbols.
What is cuneform?
500
The way to determine a person's guilt or innocence by performing painful and dangerous tests.
What is a trial by ordeal?
500
Who are the Assyrians? A civilization of people who were famous for battling and trading caravans.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
A powerful king of ancient Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
A huge slab of stone with important notices inscribed on it.
What is the stela?
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