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Civilizations
Mesopotamian Inventions and buildings
Daily Life
Geography
Wild Card
100

What is a civilization?

Government

Religion

Art

Surplus of Food

Social Structure 

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Writing

100

_____________ is an ancient form of writing made up of triangles and lines

Cuneiform

100

Belief in many gods is known as?

Polytheism

100

This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.


Geography

100

I was an ancient Babylonian king?

Hammurabi

200

Mesopotamia is now known as Modern day ______

Iraq

200

______________ was invented to get water to dry land.

Irrigation

200

This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE.

Agriculture

200

The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.

Tigris and Euphrates

200

A professional Writer?

Scribe

300

The Written set of laws that controlled people’s daily lives and behavior is called____________________

Hammurabi's code

300

Sumerian people believed that this is where the heavens and earth met.

Ziggurat

300

City States protected themselves by building _______

Walls

300

Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.

Fertile Crescent

300

A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.

A City-State

400

What are the four reasons why a Nomad would settle near to a river?

* Trade 

* Transport

* Fresh Water

* Fertile Soil

400

What is "Lyre" associated with?

Music

400

Who was at the top of the Mesopotamian social structure?

Priests and Kings

400

I was the world's first civilization(City State) in the Mesopotamian region.

Sumer

400

What did the people of Sumer write on?

Clay Tablets

500

What major invention of the Sumerians had a large impact on the forming of the first civilization?

Cuneiform

500

What was cuneiform used for in Sumer?

To keep record

500

Why were Priests and Kings both at the top of the Sumerian social pyramid?

Sumerians believed that priests were chosen by the gods.

500

I was the civilization led by King Hammurabi.

Babylonia


500

I was one of the most legendary historical figures, I was a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk and I had a perfect body. Who am I?

Gilgamesh