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I was a Babylonian King who created a strict code of laws.

Who is Hammurabi?

100

The belief in many gods.

What is polytheism?

100

The world's first ever 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 the Great?

200

The number that the Mesopotamian math system was based off of.

Who is 60?

200

The civilization led by King Hammurabi.

What is the Babylonian Empire?

200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200

A professional writer, usually wealthy boys.

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

Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.

What is the wheel?

300

A brutal civilization that was very war-like; the final civilization in ancient Mesopotamia.

What is the Assyrian Empire?

300

Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________   ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

300

An _______ is a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.

What is an empire?

400

In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the ziggurats.

Who are priests?

400

Mesopotamians created the first writing system. That system is called what?

What is cuneiform?

400
Finish this law : “If a man put out the eye of another man, his __________________.”
What is his eyes shall be put out?
400

Why was farming difficult in Mesopotamia?

What is dry weather, or little rain, or salty river water?

400
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
500

How did Mesopotamian kings justify their power to avoid revolts from the common people?

What is they said they were chosen by the gods?

500

Most people in the first city-states of Mesopotamia worked as _________.

What are farmers?

500

This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE with a surplus of food.

What is agriculture?

500

What impact did the creation of a food surplus have on Mesopotamia?

What is new jobs and new inventions, or food storage in ziggurats, or the invention of writing for taxes paid in food, or laws to manage farming?

500

In Greek, the word "Mesopotamia" means…

What is land between two rivers?