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This word means "land between rivers"

What is Mesopotamia?

100
The blue stone used for jewellery and recording the epic tale of Gilgamesh
What is Lapis Lazuli?
100
Civilisations were built largely by us. We were captured or sold to cover debts.
Who are slaves?
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

An arc of land ideal for farming

What is the fertile crescent?

200
We were people who sold our writing skills
Who are scribes?
200
It was the civilisation led by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonia?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
A reed pen
What is a stylus?
300

These are four farming techniques used by the Mesopotamians

What are irrigation, dykes, canals, dams, ditches, sickles, plows, bucket and lever, Archimides screw, bucket and chain?

300
Theses are the three coins used by Babylonians.
What are shekels, minas, and talents?
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 Sumerian king and demigod who built the city walls of Uruk and sought immortality
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
These were the first three Mesopotamian Empires, in order.
What were Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria?
400
These are three Mesopotamian imports.
What are copper, gold, lapis lazuli, wood, ivory, carnelian, tin, cedar and stone?
400
Mesopotamian civilizations were possible because of the invention of this form of writing
What is the cuneiform?
400
It's the modern day country where Mesopotamia existed
What is Iraq?
400
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own government.
What is a city-state?
500
These are two advantages of contact
What are learning new skills, acquiring new resources, exploring our land, strengthening the economy through trade, learning new languages, religions and inventions, acquiring slaves
500
These are three Mesopotamian exports.
What are pottery, wool, barley, linseed oil, jewellery, woolen cloth, metalwork and leatherwork?
500
These are four of the innovations left for us by the Mesopotamian civilizations
What are engineering, architecture, farming, irrigation, astronomy, the wheel, writing, math, law, government, taxes, bread, and beer?
500
This civilization was a crossroads of trade because of its central location.
What is Babylon?
500

I am fine sand, ideal for growing crops or making mud bricks.

What is silt?