Political/Religion
Social
Area
Technology
Economics
100
A governing system ruled by a king or queen.
What is monarchy?
100
Where students went to write and learn how to become scribes.
What are schools?
100
The continent Mesopotamia is located on.
What is Asia?
100
Originally made from stone or wood, this round object led up to wagons and carts.
What is the wheel?
100
Fish and reeds were supplied by these water sources.
What is rivers?
200
A tradition they had before eating.
What is presenting food to gods?
200
Families working together to deal with large amounts of crops.
What is farming communities?
200
The rivers that ran through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
A tool that made travel easier by always pointing North.
What is the compass?
200
People, animals, crops, and houses were swept away by these.
What is floods?
300
The "stairs" the gods used to descend to Earth.
What is Ziggurats?
300
It included merchants, scribes, craftworkers, and farmers.
What is the middle class?
300
The desert that bordered Mesopotamia.
What is the Syrian Desert?
300
A watercraft first created by Sumarians, powered by wind and made out of reeds and animal skins.
What is a sailboat?
300
The resource the Sumarians used to make bricks.
What is mud?
400
The belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
400
When someone learned all the information and skills necessary to do one job well.
What is specialization?
400
The good farming soil that Mesopotamia was located in.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
400
The Sumerians were the first ones to attach wheels to these. They are pulled by oxen or donkeys.
What is carts?
400
Growth of cities was encouraged by this cause.
What is surpluses of food?
500
The place Mesopotamia was conquered and improved by.
What is Akkad?
500
What the Sumarian writing system was based on.
What is cuneiform?
500
The Gulf that connected to the South-eastern end of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
A tool that lowed farmers to turn soil easier.
What is a plow?
500
Groups of traders that traveled together on long journeys.
What is caravans?