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100
This area was called the ____ because the two rivers make the land very fertile.
What is the fertile crescent?
100
This is one of the places that Mesopotamia traded with
What is Babylonia?
100
This is the material used to build the buildings in Mesopotamia.
What is mud bricks?
100
This method of communication was first developed in Mesopotamia, and is currently used everywhere around the world.
What is writing?
100
Each city was none as a __.
What is city-state?
200
These two crops were the most important crop grown by the Sumerians.
What is wheat and barley?
200
These are three things that Mesopotamia traded.
What is barley, stone, wood, pearls, carnelian, copper, ivory, textiles, reeds, metal, fish, textiles, oils, bricks, and grain?
200
Most of the early architecture was mostly ___ so the building could be sturdy.
What is solid?
200
This Mesopotamian invention is used to disperse water throughout an area.
What is irrigation?
200
This modern day country is where Mesopotamia is located now.
What is Iraq?
300
The ___ and the ___ are the two major rivers that run through this area are used for irrigation.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
300
This method of transportation was the most commonly used when trading?
What is by water?
300
This design for the temples in Mesopotamia was the most commonly used.
What is a ziggurt?
300
This object, because of its shape, makes it much easier to move heavy loads.
What is the wheel?
300
There were __ many empires that rules Mesopotamia.
What is eleven?
400
They used these things to redirect the water to the fields.
What is canals?
400
These are two types of sea transportation used when trading by sea.
What is river boats, gulf boats, coracles, and rafts?
400
Every city-state was protected by these.
What are walls?
400
This invention is a very important piece of a ship that is used to make the wind an energy source.
What is a sail?
400
Priests would read this body part of a chicken or lamb to find out what the god wanted for sacrifices.
What is the liver?
500
This empire created the irrigation system
What is sumerian?
500
These are the people that did the trading
What is private merchants, state led trades, and local traders.
500
this empire started adding color to the temples.
What is Neo-Babylonian?
500
This invention is very often used, it's useful when to wake you up.
What is a clock?
500
This concept is what the Babylonian laws were based on.
What is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?
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