Geography
Ancient Sumerians
Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
This term means the land between rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The ancient Sumerians handled climate problems by creating...
What is an irrigation system?
100
The climate of the Mesopotamian Plain included:
What are hot, dry summers with flooding in the spring and fall?
100
Population centers...
What are cities?
100
Civilization developed in the Fertile Crescent because...
What is farmland created by the rivers.
200
Present-day country that includes most of Mesopotamia...
What is Iraq?
200
This was the major cause of wars between the Sumerian city-states
What were disputes of water and land rights?
200
Westernmost of Mesopotamia's twin rivers...
What is the Euphrates River?
200
Sumerian wedge-shaped writing was known as...
What is cuneiform?
200
Groups of people identified by their status
What is a social class?
300
The region known as The Fertile Crescent includes parts of modern-day
What are Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq?
300
Basic political divisions of Sumer-made up of a city and its surrounding lands and villages.
What are City States?
300
Easternmost of Mesopotamia's twin rivers...
What is the Tigris River?
300
This term is characterized by a group of people with different occupations...
What is a civilization?
300
This method of watering crops was used during dry seasons...
What is an irrigation system?
400
Mesopotamia was located on land between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
These Sumerian cities are considered to be among the world's first cities...
What are Ur Uruk and Eridu?
400
This part of Mesopotamia (Southern) was home to the earliest civilization...
What is Sumer?
400
A large area of land or many territotories and people that are controlled by a single ruler or government is called a...
What is an Empire?
400
Mixture of copper and tin that gave its name to an age...
What is Bronze?
500
Mesopotamia's twin rivers emptied into this body of water...
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
Separate city-states developed in Sumer for this reason...
What is separated by long distances?
500
Mesopotamian writers were known as...
What are scribes?
500
Recurring river-valley events that enriched the soil...
What is flooding?
500
the Babylonian collection of laws...
What is Hammurabi's Code?
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