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100
I was a Babylonian king who coded the world's first code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The belief in many gods instead of just one.
What is polytheism?
100
This was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
100
A modern country where the Fertile Crescent was located.
What is Iraq, Syria, JKuwait, Turkey, or Iran?
100
The invention of this allowed people to record information and stories.
What is writing?
200
This group controlled Sumer's first governments.
What are priests?
200
This invention, originally a tool for making pottery, soon revolutionized Mesopotamian travel and trade.
What is the wheel?
200
This was the civilization led by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonian (or Babylon)?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
What do we call the earliest system of writing?
What is cuneiform?
300
Rulers created these to settle disputes over how land and water should be distributed.
What are laws?
300
This invention, along with the wheel, allowed rulers and traders to extend their influence along the rivers and shorelines.
What is the sail?
300
Mesopotamian civilizations obtained atone, wood, and metal from the peoples of the mountains and the desert by this method.
What is trade?
300
Too much of a good thing, this was a recurring threat to Mesopotamia's limited agriculture.
What is flooding?
300
This temple tower was the center of religion and government in ancient Mesopotamian cities.
What is a ziggurat?
400
A group of rulers belonging to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
400
This invention allowed taxes, trade records, and property boundaries to be measured.
What is mathematics
400
Complex institutions, specialized workers, record keeping, advanced technology, and advanced cities are all found in erevry ___.
What is civilization?
400
Mesopotamia's cities built these because of their region's lack of natural barriers.
What are walls?
400
The two main natural resources of Mesopotamia?
What are water and mud?
500
Around 2300, this Akkadian ruler created one of the world's first empires.
Who is Sargon?
500
Problems such as flooding, drought, and invasion led to the development of this legal institution.
What is government?
500
More than any other culture, this group had the right to work as merchants, farmers, priests, and artisans, and could hold property in their own name.
What is women?
500
Another name for Mesopotamia based on the shape of the area.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
These were created to battle Mesopotamia's problems with flooding and drought.
What are irrigation ditches?
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