Farming
Around the Crescent
Leadership
Faith
Geography
100
Sumerians depended on ________ to fertilize their fields.
What are Floods
100
A king known as ____________ became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Who was Gilgamesh
100
Why did city-states fight each other for farmland?
What is they wanted enough land to grow food.
100
Sumerians worshiped many gods. This practice is called:
What is Polytheism
100
What are the two land features which gave Mesopotamia its name?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
200
Silt is made up of soil and _______________.
What is tiny rock.
200
A ____________ consisted of a city as the political center and included surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state
200
Who would have been hired to keep track of items people traded?
What is a scribe.
200
Sumerian gods need to be _________ and pleased.
What is worshiped
200
Name one of the Seas which bordered the area in the north or south?
What are the Persian Gulf or the Mediterranean Sea
300
Which invention helped break up the hard clay soil of Sumer?
What is the plow.
300
A _________ is an area of many different cultures under the control of one ruler.
What is an Empire
300
Name one of the three significant Sumerian inventions.
What is the wheel, the plow, or written language.
300
Who served as a link between Sumerians and the gods?
What is a priest.
300
What current nation exists on the geographic site of Mesopotamia?
What is Iraq.
400
What invention came about to control water supply to the crops in the Fertile Crescent?
What is irrigation.
400
Hammurabi was a __________ (empire) leader.
What is Babylonian
400
What was cuneiform?
What is a form of writing using wedge shaped symbols.
400
Why were ziggurats, or temples, built so tall?
What is to honor the gods.
500
What climate exists in the area of Mesopotamia today?
What is desert.
500
Hammurabi created his laws in 1792BCE. About how long ago was that from today? (In years)
What is about 3,800 years ago.
500
The army of _____________ defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia, with his first permanent army.
Who was Sargon
500
Gilgamesh was considered one third king and one third ____.
What is god.
500
What did the rivers give to the land after a flood, which helped in growing fertile crops?
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