Vocabulary
Inventions
City-states
Geography
Hodge Podge
100
This greek term is means "between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The writing system invented by Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
100
A temple that is surrounded by courts and public buildings and is found in the center of all city-states.
What is ziggurat?
100
The two rivers that form Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The type of government you have if the law makers have to also follow the laws.
What is direct government?
200
The name given to a writer in ancient civilizations.
What is a scribe?
200
A system designed to supply dry land with water.
What is irrigation?
200
Name the four classes in the Sumer class system.
What is Kings/Priests, upper class, lower class, and slaves?
200
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
200
If El paso were a city-state, this person would be the King.
What is John Cook?
300
The word to describe goods that are sent to other countries.
What is export?
300
A Sumerian invention that made planting easier and faster.
What is a plow
300
The first group of people to inhabit Mesopotamia.
What is Sumerians?
300
The two reasons why Mesopotamia is known as the fertile cresent.
What is its shape and fertile soil?
300
The number of laws in Hammurabi's code.
What is 282?
400
The term used to describe goods brought into a country.
What is import?
400
An invention that made moving from one place to another easier.
What is a wheel?
400
Kings become this when they conquer another city-state.
What is an emperor?
400
The desert that Mesopotamia is located in.
What is Sahara?
400
The culture region that Mesopotamia belongs to.
What is North Africa and Southwest Asia?
500
Schools where children go to learn to be a scribe.
What is Tablet House?
500
Sumerians invented this based on the lunar cycle.
What is a calendar?
500
The famous emperor of ancient Mesopotamia who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
What is Hammurabi?
500
This happens every year in Mesopotamia due to heavy rains in the area of the rivers.
What is flooding?
500
Name the current day country that can be found where Mesopotamia use to exist. (Hint: This country is in the news every week).
What is Iraq
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