Vocabulary
Geography
Life in Sumer
Accomplishments
Empires
100
Fine, fertile soil carried by rivers and deposited on lands
What is silt?
100
This is the continent on which Mesopotamia is located.
What is Asia?
100
This was the largest and most important structure in Sumer
What was a ziggurat?
100
The Sumerian number system was based on this number.
What is 60?
100
This term refers to many different lands and peoples brought under the control of one ruler.
What is empire?
200
Climate type marked by hot summers and limited rainfall
What is arid?
200
These are the two rivers between which Mesopotamia is located.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
A community that included a city and its surrounding lands
What is a city-state?
200
This was invented to meet business needs. However, only scribes use it.
What is writing?
200
This king was known for creating the first code of law to bring justice to the empire.
Who was Hammurabi?
300
The belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?
300
Farmers built these to control the water supply
What are irrigation systems?
300
These people were considered leaders because they worked to make the gods happy
What are priests?
300
This was invented first for potters and later for transportation
What is the wheel?
300
The person who rules an empire is called this.
What is emperor?
400
Pictures or drawings that represent a word or idea
What are pictographs?
400
These were the only resources in Mesopotamia.
What are mud and straw?
400
These people were in the lowest class but had some rights.
What are slaves?
400
This tool was invented to help farmers.
What is the plow?
400
This city was the capital of the Babylonian and New Babylonian empires.
What is Babylon?
500
Forced removal from one's homeland, often to lands far away
What is exile?
500
This is how people of Mesopotamia obtained resources such as stone, gold, and wood.
What is trade?
500
Most people in Mesopotamia belonged in this social class including farmers, potters, and weavers.
What is middle class?
500
The Persians were the first to mint these.
What are coins?
500
This empire is known for expanding the empire to over 1,775 miles wide under the leaderships of Cyrus and Darius.
What is the Persian Empire?
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