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Ancient Mesopotamia was the first to use this invention for wagons, transportation, farming and trade.

What is the wheel?

100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
100
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
100
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
200

Ancient Mesopotamia created a calendar with this many months.

What is 12?

200
We were allowed to go to school in Mesopotamia.
Who are upperclass boys?
200
I was the civilization led by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonia?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
300

The form of writing with triangular shapes.

What is Cuneiform?

300
A traditional story that tells a belief.
What is a myth?
300
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
300
I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300

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

What is a city-state?

400

The metal first used in tool making in ancient Mesopotamia.

What is Bronze?

400
The length of a traditional school day in Mesopotamia.
What is from sunrise to sunset?
400

Mesopotamia was often called this, because it was home to the world's first civilization.

What is the "Cradle of Civilization"?

400
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400

The groups Sumerians were divided into by their background, wealth and ways of living.

What is social class?

500

The 282 laws created that was an early form of a constitution.

What is the Code of Hammurabi?

500
This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE.
What is agriculture?
500

This empire came into power after defeating Assyria and was the largest empire in the world.

What is Persia?

500

This city-state was the capital of Mesopotamia and may be the most famous city-state,

What is Babylon?

500
A time when people starve because there is so little food.
What is famine?