Mesopotamia
Studying the past
village life
Rulers and the cities
great inventions
100
What was Mesopotamia's climate like?
Hot and dry
100
Who are the people that study and write about human past?
Who are historians?
100
What were the skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery called?
What is an artisan?
100
What is land called that a ruler has control over a group of many different lands under one ruler?
What is an empire?
100
What was it called when farmers watered their crops?
What is irrigation?
200
What were the Sumerian building materials?
mud bricks
200
Who hunts for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might have once been?
Who are archaeologists?
200
What was it called when farmers watered their crops?
What is irrigation?
200
Who was the king who built the Hanging Gardens?
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
200
What was invented during times of extreme cold during the "Ice Ages"?
What is fire?
300
What is the "cradle of civilization" or "land between two rivers" ?
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Who focuses their studies on human societies?
Who are anthropologists?
300
What were the people called who traveled around and did not live in villages?
Who is a nomad?
300
What was the center of the Chaldean empire?
What is Babylon?
300
What was the Sumerian writing called?
What is cuneiform?
400
What is one of the oldest known cities?
What is Jericho or Catal Huyuk?
400
What are things made by humans long ago called?
What are artifacts?
400
Who were the people that write words?
Who is a scribe?
400
Who wrote the first legal code that governed peoples daily lives?
Who was Hammurabi?
400
What did Hammurabi create that covered most areas of his peoples daily life?
What is a written legal code "law"?
500
What was the name of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
500
What is a word that refers to the "Old Stone Age" ?
What is Paleolithic?
500
What group do artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers make up "what class"?
Who was the middle class?
500
From whom did the Assyrians learn who to make iron stronger?
Who were the Hittites?
500
Summerians invented this and added it to our calendars?
What is seven day week?
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