People
Writing
Water
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Mesopotamia & U.S.
100
a professional writer
What is a scribe?
100
Mostly these people studied to be scribes
Who are boys?
100
Name of one of the two rivers that Mesopotamia lay between
What is The Tigris or the Euphrates?
100
The name for the land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The word Mesopotamia means this"
What is "the land between the rivers"?
200
People who cared for sheep
What is a shepherd?
200
The age at which boys began to study to become professional writers
What is 8?
200
Name of the body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates flow into?
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
This word, meaning extra, allowed trade to take place and cities to be built
What is surplus?
200
Two of the most important crops in Mesopotamia?
What are wheat and barley?
300
He united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
300
This was the material that scribes wrote on
What are clay tablets?
300
The rivers left this behind when they flooded
What is silt or fertile soil?
300
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
400
He developed a strict code of Law.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This could happen to you if you did not behave in a Sumerian school
What is being beaten?
400
This is a long period of dry weather
What is a drought?
400
An area of elevated flatland
What is a plateau?
400
The mayor of New York City
Who is Michael Bloomberg?
500
She is very frustrated today.
Who is Ms. Corona?
500
This is the name of the writing system invented in Sumer
What is cuneiform?
500
This is the name of a system built to control the rivers. It used canals.
What is irrigation?
500
This was a temple to the gods
What is a ziggurat?
500
The vice President of the US
Who is Joe Biden?
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