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The meaning of Mesopotamia
What is "the land between two rivers"?
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The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
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This is what eventually happened to the Sumerians.
What is they were conquered and made part of a larger empire?
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The tools needed for cuneiform
What are a stylus and clay?
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The god of air
Who is Enlil?
200
The name of the arc shaped region.
What is "the Fertile Crescent"?
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A multi-layered temple
What is a ziggurat?
200
A system of writing developed and used by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
200
Cuneiform looked like this
What are wedge-shaped symbols?
200
He led the excavation of the Royal Tombs of Ur.
Who is Leonard Woolley?
300
People settled in the Fertile Crescent primarily for this reason.
What is the land was fertile and close to water which made it good for farming?
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A walled urban area and the surrounding farmland
What is a city-state?
300
The vehicle that was pulled by animals and carried warriors.
What is the chariot?
300
The person who would write with cuneiform was called this.
What is a scribe?
300
He was a lawgiver.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
Put these three empires in order from earliest to latest: Babylonia, Akkadia, Assyria
What is Akkadia, Babylonia, and Assyria?
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A land of many different places and people ruled by one government
What is an empire?
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This was where archaeologists discovered Sumerian ruins.
What is the Royal Tombs of Ur?
400
This is why Sumerians invented standard measures for weight and volume
What is to measure grain harvests?
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"The Conqueror": He overthrew his king and created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
500
Sumer was located in southern Mesopotamia near what gulf?
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
A division of labor allowed people to do this in their job
What is specialize?
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This was used to make stronger farming tools.
What is bronze?
500
List four irrigation techniques used by Mesopotamian farmers to control water
What are dikes, dams, canals, and basins?
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He built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
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