Geography
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PEOPLE
VOCABULARY
100
The Mesopotamian civilization developed between these two rivers.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
Mesopotamia developed the world’s first written language. It was called this.
Cuneiform
100
This Mesopotamian king developed the first written laws.
Hammurabi
100
A group of people with similar customs, traditions, and beliefs.
Culture
200
Civilization flourished because Mesopotamia’s rivers did this every year.
They flooded every year.
200
Mesopotamia controlled the flooding Tigris & Euphrates Rivers by inventing this.
Irrigation
200
This group of people was at the bottom of the Mesopotamian social structure.
Enslaved People
200
Like a small, independent country.
City-State
300
Mesopotamia is in this present day region.
The Middle East
300
Mesopotamia developed the world’s first set of written laws. It was called this.
Hammurabi’s Code
300
These people were at the top of the Mesopotamian social structure.
Kings and or Priests
300
The area of great farmland around the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.
Fertile Crescent
400
Mesopotamia is in this present day country.
Iraq
400
Mesopotamians invented this tool which was pulled by animals to make farming easier.
The Plow
400
This mythological Mesopotamian hero took part in an early flood story.
Gilgamesh
400
Rules and consequences that people agree to live by. Hammurabi’s code is a collection of them.
Laws
500
The climate of Mesopotamia is generally this.
Arid/desert-like
500
Mesopotamians built huge ceremonial buildings called this.
Ziggurats
500
These people were responsible for taking goods to other places and bringing back new goods.
Merchants/Traders
500
People who recorded key legal, cultural, and religious information in writing
Scribes