Geography
The Sumerians
Sumerian Achievements
Later People of the Fertile Crescent
Miscellaneous Facts
100
the two rivers that border Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
the worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
100
the world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
100
a brillant war leader who is most famous for his code of laws
Who was Hammurabi?
100
"between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
200
a large arc of farmland located between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
a division of society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy?
200
a person who was hired to keep written records
What is a scribe?
200
land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
What is an empire?
200
present-day Iraq
What is Mesopotamia?
300
a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
What is silt?
300
king who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
long poems that tell the stories of heroes
What are epics?
300
technology used in battle by the Hittites and Assyrians
What is iron weapons and chariots?
300
a ruler of a kingdom or empire
Who is a monarch?
400
a way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
400
basis of Sumerian math system
What is 60?
400
wheel, potter's wheel, plow, and bronze weapons
What are Sumerian inventions?
400
the city that Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt
What is Babylon?
400
lead the overthrow the Assyrians
Who are the Chaldeans?
500
located in the countryside
What is rural?
500
a type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
What is division of labor?
500
a pyramid-shaped temple tower
What is a ziggurat?
500
people who turned to the sea for the trading of cedar and purple snail dye
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
first set of written laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
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