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An arc of land in the Middle East that had good soil, a hot climate and water.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
100
The freedoms enjoyed by the women of Mesopotamia.
What is they could own property and slaves, run businesses and take part in trading?
100
This invention allowed people to create pulleys to raise water from wells.
What is the wheel?
100
The best known set of laws of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
100
The date that Sumer began.
What is 2500 BCE?
200
The two rivers Mesopotamia is between.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
200
People who sell their skills for a living, kept records and accounts on clay tablets.
What are scribes?
200
This innovation made farming easier.
What is the plough?
200
Who was Hammurabi.
What is the king of Babylon?
200
The date that Babylon began.
What is 1700 BCE?
300
The four civilizations that existed on the Mesopotamian plain.
What are Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and Chaldea?
300
The first people to exchange money for goods.
Who are the Babylonians?
300
Mesopotamians divided the year into these two seasons.
What are summer and winter?
300
What did Hammurabi claim the gods told him about why to create and write down laws.
What is to make sure that "the strong don't oppress the weak."?
300
The date that Assyria began.
What is 625 BCE?
400
The current name for the area that most of Mesopotamia lay in.
What is Iraq?
400
These people used a barter system to buy and sell goods.
Who were the Sumerians?
400
The earliest known system of writing that was developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
400
Hammurabi's laws were based on this.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
400
The date that Chaldea began.
What is 600 BCE?
500
The substance that rose to the surface of the soil and and caused it to become less fertile.
What is salt?
500
A carving on a stone surface.
What is a relief?
500
The Mesopotamians counting system was based on this number.
What is 60?
500
Canadian laws are based on this.
What is the belief that people will obey the law out of respect rather than fear?
500
In 3000 BCE cities became these (independent and not belonging to a country).
What is a city-state?
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