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Geography
The Rise of Sumer
Sumerian Achievements
Later Peoples of Mesopotamia
Interesting Facts
100
The Greek word for "between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
100
The Sumerians
What is the name of the first advanced civilizations
100
The world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
100
The Assyrians used these to drive into battle
What is a chariot?
100
The King with the first standing army
Who is Sargon?
200
An arc shaped land with fertile soil
What is The Fertile Crescent
200
This played a major part in the lives of the Sumerians
What is religion?
200
The Sumerian tractor
What is a plow?
200
The next group of people to rule Mesopotamia after the Sumerians
Who were the Babylonians?
200
Known for making laws
Who is Hammurabi?
300
The city and its surrounding countryside
What is a city state?
300
Silt
What is a mixture of soil and small rocks?
300
A system of bringing water from one area to another
What is irrigation?
300
This city became most important to the Babylonians. King Hammurabi lived there!
What is Babylon?
300
One of the Seven Wonders of the World. It sure was impressive and must have made her very happy!
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
400
Urban and rural
What is a city and country
400
Only the king or monarch was higher
What is a priest?
400
Used for carts and pottery
What is the wheel?
400
The Hittites, Kassites and Chaldeans
What are the different groups who ruled Babylon?
400
The term for having a different job for people
What is Division of Labor?
500
The names of the two rivers
What is The Tigris and The Euphrates
500
Polytheism
What is the worship of many gods?
500
A canal
What is a man made waterway?
500
They built ships 60 feet long and 16 feet wide to trade their precious cedar.
Who were the Phonecians
500
Hey, slaves are on the bottom and the King is on the top!
What is social hierarchy?