CULTURE
FOOD & CLOTHING
SOCIAL CLASSES
MIXED BAG
GEOGRAPHY
100
Samas, Marduk, and Damu are examples of these.
What are gods?
100
The Mesopotamians had 300 types of this.
What is bread?
100
They had been chosen by the gods to rule.
Who are the kings?
100
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
100
A large arc of rich fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
A law code of 282 laws which was baesd on royal decisions.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
Irrigation canals on farming land were designed not to fill with this substance too quickly.
What is silt?
200
The governments and temples provided large numbers of people to produce these in the workshops.
What are textiles, leather, carpentry stone, metal and jewellery.
200
This was used for transportation and children's toys, first of all by the Mesopotamians.
What is the wheel?
200
This was a major archaeological site discovered by Leonard Woolley.
What is Ur?
300
Things important in a marriage arrangement.
What is sheep, silver, beer, grain.
300
This natural resource helped to make pots for food, storage, and other useful everyday items.
What is clay?
300
This was organised around the temple in each of the city-states.
Administration for the government.
300
Used to validate the written transaction by a scribe.
What are cylinder seals?
300
Human-made waterways that controlled the river's flow.
What is an irrigation canal?
400
Religious building located in the city states.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Gur, bur, mina and shekel.
What are units of measurement?
400
They made up the large working class.
Who are farmers and laborers?
400
The king appointed these people to be in charge of upkeep of canals and communications - a very important job which kept the land together.
Who were governors and officials?
400
Three disadvantages of the environment in Mesopotamia.
What is dry land, unpredictable floods, hot summers.
500
An official who wrote letters, kept records so all people in society had access to writing.
What is a scribe?
500
Clothes were made out of this material.
What is wool?
500
Prisoners of war, debt, slave trade.
How did people people become slaves?
500
They used this metal to make tools and weapons stronger.
What is bronze?
500
The rivers which run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
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