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What are the two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
100
What are used to represent objects in Mesopotamia through pictures?
Pictograms
100
Who are the members of the privileged minority?
Rich and powerful families
100
What does Mesopotamia mean?
land between two rivers
200
What do you call the walls that were built to contain water?
Dykes
200
What is the type of writing that is written on wet clay tablets with a reed stick?
Cuneiform
200
What is the oldest set of written laws that existed in the mid-18 century B.C.?
Code of Hammurabi
200
What is the name of the sacred building that was composed of brick terraces in the form of a step pyramid?
Ziggurat
300
Give at least one of the improvements brought by the significant changes in the first civilisations.
- increase in the quantity and variety of crops
- trade and craftsmanship
- economic prosperity
300
What do you call the series of pictograms that expressed their ideas?
Ideographic writing
300
How many laws are there in the Code of Hammurabi?
282 laws
300
What is the first great work of literature in history?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
400
What is the result of agricultural developments?
- Cities
400
What is the Ideographic writing system used by the Egyptians where they wrote on stones, wooden tablets and papyrus?
Hieroglyphics
400
What does a 'free man' in the Law 196 of the Code of Hammurabi mean?
Refers to the privileged who did not have to work for others
400
What is the Mesopotamian architecture composed of?
Bricks, semicircular arches and vaults
500
Who are the group of people that helps the governors control peace and order of the citizens in their territory?
- Government Officials 
500
What is the discovery in the 19th century where the same text appears in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek?
Rosetta Stone
500
What is the ancient unit of currency?
mine
500
Who was the main deity of Babylon when they became the most important city?
Marduk