Geography
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Vocabulary
100
What are the two rivers found in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
What is the name of the first empire in Mesopotamia?
Sumer
100
What is the invention that helped improve agriculture using animal labor?
plow
100
What did Mesopotamian houses face?
a center courtyard
100
What is the building where they worships their gods?
ziggurat
200
What is the other name given to Mesopotamia which tells that is it the beginning of civilization?
Fertile Crescent
200
What is name of the king who united all of Mesopotamia?
Sargon I
200
What is invention that helped increase transportation over the water?
sailboat
200
What is the name of a person who excavates a site and discovers artifacts?
archeologist
200
What is the believe in many gods?
polytheism
300
The name of modern day country where Mesopotamia was located.
Iraq
300
What is name of the person who wrote the code of laws?
King Hammurabi
300
What is name of the invention which helped increase the number of clay pots created?
pottery wheel
300
What is number of years that a person must train to write the first written language?
12
300
What is the name of a person who is from the middle class and made items to be sold? (Begins with the letter A)
Artisan
400
What is the word that bring water to crops?
irrigation
400
What is name of the oldest piece of literature?
Epic of Gilgamesh
400
What is name of the first form of writing?
cuneiform
400
What is the shape of a Mesopotamian roof?
Flat so people can sleep on them in hot temperatures.
400
What is the name of the large stone on which Hammurabi's Laws were inscribed?
Stele
500
What is the body of water into which the two rivers of Mesopotamia flow?
Persian Gulf
500
What is the country that was led by King Hammurabi?
Babylonia
500
What is the invention that revolutionized time in Mesopotamia?
60 second minute and 60 min. hour
500
What is the kind of government that was found in Mesopotamia?
Monarchy--rule by king or queens
500
What is the name of a person who is trained in writing?
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