The moon shaped region that was partially rocky and partially lush and green.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The system of writing the Sumerians invented where you use sharp reeds to scratch the records into wet clay tablets. It was one of the first writing systems invented in the world.
What is cuneiform?
100
This is a group of lands and peoples ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
100
He ruled Babylon and made one of ancient world's largest cities and also beautiful with hanging gardens.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
100
Long period of dry weather. A lack of water.
What is a drought?
200
The name of the two rivers that brought gifts of water and rich soil to the people as well as deadly floods.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
Dozens of small cities that dotted the plains of Southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
After Sargon died, his empire broke apart because of this.
What are conflicts?
200
A canal used for protection.
What is a moat?
200
An elevated flat-land.
What is a plateau?
300
The "Land between two Rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
300
These in Sumer were a self-governing city that also governed the surrounding village.
What is a city-state?
300
This king united the Babylonian Empire and also wrote over 200 laws.
Who is King Hammurabi?
300
As you enter Babylon you go through a famous gateway that honored this goddess of love and war.
Who is Ishtar?
300
Boys learned to write and girls rarely did. Boys became this, or writers.
What is a scribe?
400
This came at the worst time when the fields didn't need it and destroyed crops, homes, and lives.
What are floods?
400
This is a large building with a temple on top that symbolized the Sumerian religion.
What is a ziggurat?
400
These are rules that are written and apply to everyone.
What is the code of law?
400
This group of people in Babylon helped to build canals, roads, and buildings.
Who are prisoners of war?
400
A raised waterway.
What is an acqueduct?
500
Southern Mesopotamia became famous for this method of watering land with canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
500
He found the city-state Akkad and used communication of laws and messages to unite his city-state.
Who is Sargon?
500
Babylon and this city were alike because they were walled and both contained palaces and temples.
What is Nineveh?
500
The people who felt sorrow in Babylon came from this present day country.