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100
This word means "the land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This was the primary problem for Mesopotamian farmers.
What is unpredicatable flooding?
100
This is an example of a member of Sumer's upper social class.
What were Kings, Priests, and government officials?
100
This was the most commmon job in Sumeria.
What is farmer?
100
This is a city with its own government and surrounding lands.
What is a city-state?
200
These are the names of the two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
This solved the primary problem of Mesopotamian farmers.
What are irrigation systems?
200
This is an example of a member of Sumer's middle social class.
What are artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers?
200
This person's job is to buy and sell goods.
What is a merchant?
200
This was perhaps the oldest law code in the world.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
300
One of these is the reason early peoples chose to settle in Sumer, a) Mild Climate b) Good farmland c) It was an empire
What is b) good farmland?
300
This helped Mesopotamian farmers know what time of year was best to plant crops.
What is an astronomical calendar?
300
This is a social group that has no freedom and is forced to serve others.
What are slaves?
300
This person's job was to keep records for the city-state.
What is a scribe?
300
This person was a ruler of the Chaldean empire.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
400
These are the 3 natural barriers surrounding Mesopotamia.
What are deserts, mountains, and seas?
400
This is the reason that agriculture is essential for civilization.
What is a reliable food supply for a large population?
400
This is one way social roles for men and women differed.
What is school for boys, only?
400
These were the two methods used to transport goods in long-distance trade?
What are sailboats and caravans?
400
This is the name of Mesopotamian writing
What is cuneiform?
500
These two geographic features made communication and travel between city-states difficult.
What are deserts and mudflats?
500
These 3 things were Sumerian inventions.
What was the sailboat, plow, wagon wheel, calendar, or numbering system based on 60?
500
This is a very long story, usually about a hero who represents the values of the people who wrote it.
What is an epic?
500
This is the reason the Assyrian Army was a powerful fighting force.
What are iron weapons and good organization?
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