I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
100
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
200
I was the leader of the first empire, Akkad.
Who was Sargon?
200
I was the civilization led by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonia?
200
We were allowed to go to school in Mesopotamia.
Who are upperclass boys?
200
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
200
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
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
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
300
Mesopotamians created the first writing system. This writing
system is called what?
What is cuneiform?
300
A _______ is a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
What is an empire?
300
I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
Why did Mesopotamian leaders order walls to be built around their city-states?
What is from protection from invaders?
400
Finish this law :
“If a man put out the eye of another
man, his __________________.”
What is his eyes shall be put out?
400
Without the Mesopotamian invention
of the ______, we may not have cars,
bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
400
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
400
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the ziggurats.
Who are priests?
500
Most people in the first city-states in Sumer were ______
What are farmers?
500
This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE.
What is agriculture?
500
The word Mesopotamia means…
What is land between two rivers?
500
What body of water is located to the East of Mesopotamia