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I was a Babylonian King
Who is HAMMURABI?
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
I was the leader of the first empire, Akkad.
Who was Sargon?
200

Every time the rivers would flood, what was left behind that helped the soil so crops could grow?

Silt

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
I was one of the most legendary historical figures, I was a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk. There is a great epic written about me.
Who was Gilgamesh?
300
Mesopotamians created the first writing system. This writing system is called what?
What is cuneiform?
300

A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.

What is Assyria?

300

What does the word DOMESTICATE mean?

to adapt (an animal or plant) over time from a wild or natural state especially by selective breeding to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans

300
A _______ is a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
What is an empire?
400

Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for one of his many wives ?

King Nebuchadnezzar 

400
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
400

What was the first set of laws called?

Hammurabi's Code

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
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
500
In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the ziggurats.
Who are priests?
500

This was a major event that allowed hunters and gathers to start civilizations in 8000 BCE. 

agriculture?

500

Name two modern day countries that occupy the land where the Fertile Crescent was?

Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Syria, Iraq

500
What body of water is located to the East of Mesopotamia
What is The Persian Gulf?
500
The word Mesopotamia means…
What is land between two rivers?