Geography
Vocabulary
Civilization
Mesopotamia
Contributions
100
The 2 rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
Complex societies
What is a civilization?
100
These are _____ or towns
What are cities?
100
The names of Mesopotamia's temples
What are ziggurats?
100
This round invention helped people cart things around.
What is a wagon wheel?
200
Mesopotamia was located in this current day country
What is modern day Iraq?
200
An example is 1600 Loma Colorado
What is absolute location?
200
They used ziggurats as part of this characteristic.
What is religion?
200
The first set of laws
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws
200
Another round invention with no end.
What is a 360 circle?
300
The reason why you'd want to settle in Mesopotamia
What is good farming, lots of crops, trade, travel, ect
300
Absolute Location has these things.
What are coordinates or an address?
300
An example is a Picasso or a Van Gough
What is art?
300
Because of this people were able to settle down in Mesopotamia
What is the farming revolution?
300
These two inventions helped farmers.
What is irrigation and the plow?
400
The land Mesopotamia was located in is known as this.
What is the fertile crescent?
400
The item on a map that tells you directions.
What is a compass rose?
400
An example is a democracy.
What is organized government?
400
People who wrote cuneiform were known as this.
What are scribes?
400
This invention helped Mesopotamians travel as well as trade.
What is the sailboat?
500
Greek for "between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The belief in many gods and goddess
What is polytheism?
500
An example is cuneiform.
What is writing system?
500
The world's first emperor.
Who is Sargon?
500
The first piece of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
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