Inventions
Geography
Cities
Writing
Vocabulary
100
Was made from wood with tires made of leather
What is a wheel
100
The word Mesopotamia means
What is the land between two rivers
100
Large religious temple
What is Ziggurat
100
The earliest form of writing
What is cuneiform
100
The land between 2 rivers
What is Mesopotamia
200
Was developed to keep track of records of crops and trade
What is mathematics
200
The _________ of Mesopotamia influenced where people settled and how they lived
What is geography
200
Farmers lived in small________ outside the city walls
What is huts
200
Pictures or drawings that represent a word
What is pictograph
200
Flatlands that border the banks of a river
What is floodplains
300
The earliest writing system was called
What is cuneiform
300
Mesopotamia was a _________ place (dry)
What is arid
300
Each city had a _________ that led to the main gate
What is road
300
Early writing was important because early rulers wanted to keep track of supplies and keep accurate ________
What is records
300
fine fertile soil, carried by rivers deposited on nearby lands
What is silt
400
Was the first to establish a code of law
What is hammurabi
400
The system of water and dry land is called
What is irrigation
400
Each city had a ____________ where merchants sold their goods
What is marketplace
400
People who specialized in writing
What is scribes
400
long period of little or know rainfall
What is drought
500
These were issued by the government as official money, promoted businesses and made it easy to pay taxes
What is mined coins
500
Mesopotamia is located in southwest __________
What is Asia
500
Rulers lived in large_______
What is a palace
500
Scribes used this sharpened tool to write
What is stylus
500
Advanced form of culture that developed in cities
What is civilization
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