Geography
Religion
Achievements
Power
Economy
Social Structure
100
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
100
What is a city-state's temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
100
The first writing system.
What is cuneiform?
100
City-States were ruled by this type of person.
What are kings or monarchs?
100
The most common occupation in Mesopotamia.
What is farming?
100
The number of social classes in Mesopotamia.
What is three?
200
The climatic and geographic advantages of Mesopotamia.
What is mild weather/climate, river valley, protected by mountains?
200
The term for belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
Considered to be the oldest written story.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
200
A throne or crown passed from one generation to the next.
What is a hereditary monarchy?
200
City-states emerged after people developed specialized labor and could then do this.
What is trade or barter?
200
This class consisted of the king, priests, and government officials.
What is the upper class?
300
Mesopotamia is part of this agricultural region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
Gods in ancient Mesopotamia were believed to control this.
What is nature or environment?
300
The time system developed in Mesopotamia was based on what number?
What is 60?
300
The ruler of the first empire, the Akkadians.
Who is Sargon?
300
A sequence of locations where people traveled to trade goods.
What is a trade route?
300
Artisans and merchants were part of this social class.
What is middle?
400
The area of the Fertile Crescent most resembles this.
What is crescent, crescent moon, croissant, boomerang, half-circle?
400
This was the role of priests in city-states.
What is leading religious ceremonies?
400
Mesopotamia depended on this system of engineering to grow crops.
What is irrigation?
400
Dominated thanks to iron weapons.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
This group of people was not allowed to own property. (three possible answers)
Who are women, slaves, prisoners?
400
The two ways people were acquired for the lower class.
What is war and courts/punishment for crimes?
500
_______ and ______ are two major cities of Mesopotamia.
What are Akkad, Assur, Babylon, Nineveh, Uruk?
500
Ziggurats are examples of this Sumerian achievement.
What is monumental architecture?
500
Cuneiform enabled what practices for business?
What are communication, recordkeeping?
500
A phrase that summarizes the Code of Hammurabi.
What is an eye for an eye?
500
Someone called who goes to school to learn to write and becomes a government official.
What is a scribe?
500
The highest of the upper class.
What is king?
600
The Fertile Crescent lies at the crossroads of these three continents.
What are Europe, Africa, and Asia?
600
An attempt to explain the unexplainable.
What is a myth ?
600
The Sumerians first developed this stargazing science.
What is astronomy?
600
A way to grow an empire without a battle.
What is agreement?
600
Having more than enough.
What is surplus?
600
These individuals had the hardest lives and had no rights.
What are slaves?
700
This body of water is the western border of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
700
Mesopotamians believed gods would punish humans with natural disasters such as:
What are floods, earthquakes, storms, fires?
700
The power of harnessing the wind came from this invention.
What is the sail?
700
Term for many regions under one ruler.
What is empire?
700
This item represented wealth for both men and women.
What is animals, land, jewelry?
700
Government officials depended on this invention to function.
What is writing or cuneiform?
800
The Tigris and Euphrates originate in which mountain ranges?
What are the Zagros and Caucuses Mountains?
800
Priests, gods, and ziggurats existed because Mesopotamians developed:
What is organized religion?
800
A king of Babylon was responsible for this set of rules for proper behavior.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
800
This group was treated more severely under Hammurabi's Code.
What is the poor, working class, or slave?
800
Large farms depended on this human resource.
What is slaves, slavery, enslaved people?
800
This official could be deposed ("fired") or even killed in case of natural disasters.
What is priest?