No Sweat
I Got This
Okay, Sweating
Actual Tears of Pain
You Don't Even Know
100
The wedge-shaped Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform?
100
Mesopotamia means "land between" these
What are rivers?
100
A conqueror known for reforming the code-of-law
Who is Hammurabi?
100
An organized system of laws
What is a code?
100
This is what the Sumerians called their schools.
What are tablet houses?
200
A Sumerian temple with many levels
What is a ziggurat?
200
A system of social ranks
What is a hierarchy?
200
Sargon I created the first one of these when he conquered all the city-states
What is an empire?
200
Sumerian artisans and shopkeepers belonged to this social class
What is the middle class?
200
Gilgamesh went into the water to retrieve this.
What is a plant that grants eternal life?
300
A belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
300
One of these was at the center of each Sumerian city-state
What is a ziggurat?
300
The land called Mesopotamia in ancient times is now part of this country
What is Iraq?
300
The legendary hero of Sumerian culture
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
This animal took something from Gilgamesh.
What is a serpent?
400
A person who is skilled in a craft
What is an artisan?
400
A Sumerian who could read and write
What is a scribe?
400
The two rivers bounding Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
400
The Sumerians first settled in Mesopotamia around this year
What is 3500 BC?
400
This was taken from Gilgamesh.
What is the plant that grants eternal life?
500
A Sumerian city and its surrounding land
What is a city-state?
500
This is the chief export of the Middle East today
What is oil?
500
The chief city of Hammurabi's empire
What is Babylon?
500
The leading city-state of Sumer
What is Ur?
500
The thieving animal in Gilgamesh's story is rejuvenated this way.
What is shedding slough, or skin?
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