VOCABULARY
LESSONS 1-2
LESSONS 3-4
LESSON 5
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
What is a plateau?
A high, flat surface of land.
100
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between two rivers.
100
What did early farmers keep records of in almanacs?
The best way to plant, irrigate land, and care for crops.
100
How many laws are in the Code of Hammurabi?
282 laws.
100
How many square feet bigger is the present day acre than the iku?
5,960 square feet bigger.
200
What does monarchy mean?
A governing system ruled by a king or queen.
200
Name one city-state.
Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, ect.
200
Name three jobs that people in Sumerian city-states trained for.
Weavers, potters, stonemasons, leatherworkers, bricklayers, and metalworkers.
200
Who was the world's first empire?
Sargon
300
What are innovations?
New ways of doing things.
300
What are the two rivers that border Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates River.
300
What do scribes do?
Record information for others.
300
Fill in the blank: Sargon set up his capital at the city of _________.
Akkad.
400
What is a ziggurat?
The largest and tallest temple in every Sumerian city-state.
400
Make a sentence using the words alluvial plain and silt.
ex: Over many years an alluvial plain was formed from silt.
400
What number did the Sumerians base their number system on?
60
400
What did Nebuchadnezzar build that is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
500
What is polytheism?
believing in many gods.
500
What body of water do the Tigris and Euphrates River both flow into?
The Persian Gulf.
500
What does iku mean, and how many square feet is it.
iku means "the field." The iku is 37,600 square feet.
500
Name two things that the Assyrians were the first to use.
Battering ram, and a lance.
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