The Rivers
These are the two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
Around 7500BCE this settlement was established in central Turkey
What is Catal Huyuk
This sport is played with mallets on horseback.
What is Polo?
The Tigris and Euphrates do this before entering into Persian gulf.
What is merge in the Shatt-al-Arab.
He was the Sumerian god of the Sun.
Who is Shamash?
This was the most important beverage in Neolithic villages.
What is Beer?
Hammurabi wrote these.
What is a code of laws?
This is the chemical name of Iron.
What is Fe?
This civilization, the builders of Babylon, would eventually replace the Sumerians as the dominant culture along the Mesopotamian corridor.
Who are the Akkadians?
This man was granted immortality after he survived the flood in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who was Utnapishti?
This metal replaced stone as the medium of choice for weapons and tools
What is Bronze?
Sumerians wrote with this writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
These are the dwarf mines under the misty mountains in the Lord of the Rings.
What is Moria?
This was the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer (Sumerian)
This is the curved band of plantable land in Western Asia where civilization first appeared.
What is the fertile crescent?
This stepped pyramid was the center of the Mesopotamian city.
What is the Ziggurat?
These are the awards given to musicians for excellence in their field.
What are the Grammys?
The Taurus mountains in Eastern Turkey is the source of this great river.
What is the Tigris?
This demon was slain by Gilgamesh while he guarded the cedar forest of Lebanon.
Who was Humbaba?
This were the jobs that preceded agriculture as the dominant means of providing food
What is Hunting and Gathering?
You get this by melting Copper and Tin together.
What is Bronze?
This is what RAM means in a computer.
What is random access memory?