Key Terms
Rulers
Inventions
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Just Stuff
100
Like plains, these landforms are flat and higher.
What is a plateau?
100
This ruler created the Mespotamia empire.
Who is Sargon?
100
This football shaped clay ball may have sounded like a rattle whenit was shook; but it represented the earliest form of writing.
What is a bulla?
100
The shape is like a sliver of the moon and has a lot of farmers.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
100
When you have more than enough stuff.
What is a surplus?
200
This type of government was independant and often fought and traded with other ones.
What is a city-state?
200
He was one of the most powerful rulers of the Assyrian Empire.
Who is Shamshi-Adad?
200
This invention allowed goods to be moved over land easier.
What is a wheel?
200
The river that is north of Kish.
What is the Tigris River?
200
This person recorded stuff on clay tablets.
What is a scribe?
300
This type of govenment contained many cities and nations, and one ruler.
What is a an empire?
300
This ruler greatest interest was gaining wealth and power.
Who is Adad-Nirari?
300
This invention enabled traders to travel the Euphrates.
What is a sailboat?
300
This river starts in the Taurus Mountains.
What is the Euphrates River?
300
This gate probally has had a lot stuff move through it over the centuries.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
400
These people moved with their flocks.
What is a nomad?
400
This ruler was both cruel and magnificent.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
400
This invention organized the days.
What is a calendar?
400
The land between two rivers was called this by the Greeks.
What is Mesoptamia?
400
These gardens were famous and had a lot of plants and and was one of the wonders of the ancient world..
What is the hanging gardens of Babylon?
500
These scientists created the first calendars, 60-minute hour and had their heads in the stars.
What is an astronomer?
500
The people of Babylonia did not like the way ths ruler ruled.
Who is Nabonidus?
500
This form of writing uses pictures.
What is a pictograph?
500
The Tigris starts here when the snow melts.
What is the Zargos Mountains?
500
This ruler like to collect other peoples' stuff along with their property; yet he cared like Mr. Hotchkiss.
Who is Hammurabi?
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