Geography
Inventions/Innovations
Religion
Crime and Justice
The People
100
A large arc of rich or fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
A pyramid-shaped temple in Sumer.
What is a zigurat?
100
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Important Babylonian King known for his early law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
People who performed religious ceremonies.
Who are priests?
200
This type of land form was in Northern Mesopotamia
What is a plateau?
200
A cylinder shaped item engraved on its surface to leave impressions when rolled on wet clay?
What is a cylinder seal?
200
The most important Sumerian god.
Who is Ea?
200
The most basic principle of the code.
What is an eye for an eye?
200
This stringed instrument was played in the temples for kings.
What is a lyre?
300
This region is located north of Mesopotamia.
What is Asia Minor?
300
This item revolutionized the system of transportation and thereby communication.
What is the wheel?
300
This group believed the most important god was Baal.
Who are the Phoenicians?
300
The Akkadians were the first people to move from separate city states to this form of government.
What is an empire?
300
Name one thing grown by farmers in 7000 B.C.
What are wheat, barley or other grains?
400
These two rivers were the most important physical features in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
400
The earliest form of one of these was found in a temple made of different materials.
What is a mosaic?
400
The Goddess of War associated with the city of Uruk.
Who is Inanna?
400
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
400
Farmers used this method to bring water to their fields.
What is irrigation?
500
These mountains are located east of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros mountains?
500
Writing system invented by the Sumerians that emerged in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE
What is cuneiform?
500
Believed to be the home of the gods.
What is a temple?
500
Mesopotamia had a government that was made up of these two types of government.
What are monarchy and democracy?
500
His daughter was the first known female writer in history.
Who is Sargon?
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