Geography
Empires
Technology
Vocabulary
Wild Card
100
The "Land Between Two Rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The time period that Sargon created the World's First Empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
100
Triangular-shaped writing invented by Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
100
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
100
A person who specialized in writing.
What is a scribe?
200
It borders the Fertile Crescent on the West.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The ruler of the ("Old") Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
A set of laws written by the ("Old") Babylonians.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
The region of the Middle East that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The main transportation used by Mesopotamians.
What is the boat?
300
The two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
The ruler of the Assyrians.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
300
What tools are made out of during the time of the Mesopotamians.
What is bronze?
300
The first set of written laws that applied to everyone in the society.
What is the code of law or Hammurabi's Code?
300
What caused trade.
What is a surplus?
400
What the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow in to.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
The ruler of the Neo-Babylonians.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
400
A tool that helped farmers till the soil.
What is the plow?
400
A large territory where several groups of people are ruled by a single powerful leader or government.
What is an empire?
400
The capital of the Babylonian Empire.
What is Babylon?
500
This present day country is NOT part of the Fertile Crescent - Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Turkey.
What is Egypt?
500
A warlike people, known for their ferocity who conquered the Babylonian Empire.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
Used for many things including transport, making pottery and moving water.
What is the wheel?
500
A large multi-tiered temple.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The area that was the original part of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
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