Definitions
Geography
Agriculture
Economy
100
A pyramid shaped monument.
What is a ziggurat?
100
Modern-day Iraq
What is Sumer, Mesopotamia?
100
Large-scale irrigation system.
What is the solution to helping the food surplus flourish?
100
I will barter with you for that grain.
What is trading without money?
200
A skilled worker that makes goods by hand.
What is an artisan?
200
The Euphrates River
What was near the city of Ur?
200
Trading goods without using money
What is bartering?
200
Also doubled as the city hall.
What is a ziggurat?
300
A long lasting pattern of organization in a community.
What is an institution?
300
Tigris and Euphrates
What are the rivers that frame Mesopotamia?
300
When people began to use bronze rather than copper and stone.
What is the Bronze Age?
400
Complex Institutions
What is one of the five characteristics of a civilization?
400
Rich land good for growing food and plants.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
400
Ideas or products are shared from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
400
A good ruler that built a famous code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
Provided the opportunity for specialization.
What is Food Surplus?
500
Now known as modern day Iraq.
What is Sumer?
500
Sumerians surrounded many of their cities with what type of agriculture.
What is barley and wheat?
500
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
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