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Vocabulary
100
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means this.
What is land between two rivers?
100
The Babylonian Empire was centered in this capital city.
What is Babylon?
100
The Sumerians are credited for inventing this device, that allows carts and chariots to move around.
What is the wheel?
100
This word means extra.
What is a surplus?
200
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is between are these.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Babylonian king, famous for his code of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
200
The oldest known written language system.
What is cuneiform?
200
A step pyramid.
What is a Ziggurat?
300
The continent on which Mesopotamia is located.
What is Asia?
300
This Akkadian ruled the first empire known to history
Who is Sargon?
300
The first written system of laws.
What was Hammurabi's Code?
300
A traveling group of traders.
What is a Caravan?
400
Mesopotamia is part of a bigger land region called this because of its rich farmland and how it is shaped.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
The Assyrians invented these two war machines.
What is the catapult and battering ram?
400
A city that also has its own independent government and/or king.
What is a city- state?
500
Mesopotamia is no longer called Mesopotamia, but it is now known as this country.
What is Iraq?
500
They created the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
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