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Mesopotamia
What is "the land between the rivers"
100
This controlled floodwaters and directed the right amount of water to the fields
What is irrigation
100
This person read and wrote for the King and others
What is a scribe
100
This was created to keep track of farming, trading, and population
What is cuneiform
100
This non-slave group made up the second largest population in Mesopotamian society
What is a farmer
200
Mesopotamia is located in a very fertile region called..
What is the Fertile Crescent
200
People often traded live animals for other goods or services
What is livestock
200
This King treated his people very harshly until he understood friendship and love.
Who is Gilgamesh
200
This made farming more efficient (easier and faster)and was attached to livestock
What is the plow
200
This member of society conducted sacrifices to the gods
What is a priest
300
These two rivers provided life to the Mesopotamian civilization
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers
300
All city-states needed to have enough food plus extra for storage
What is a food surplus
300
This theory of law often required the punishment to fit the crime
What is "eye for an eye"
300
This invention was considered Mesopotamia's most important invention
What is the wheel
300
These people were prisoners of war from conquered places
What is a slave
400
This event in nature had positive and negative consequences on life in Mesopotamia
What is flooding
400
Because farming was successful, not everyone had to farm. Non-farmers could do other jobs. This is called...
What is division of labor
400
This leader favored the upper class in his empire and often decreased their punishments
Who was Hammurabi
400
This invention was a system of ditches, dams, canals, and reservoirs for controlling Mesopotamia's water supply
What is irrigation
400
These people made up the middle class in the social class pyramid
What is a merchant, scribe, builder, pottery maker, artisan...
500
These natural barriers helped to protect Mesopotamia from outside attacks
What are the surrounding mountains
500
along with food, these are also basic survival needs
What are clothing and shelter
500
People were divided by the jobs they had. This organization was called
What is social classes
500
This achievement allowed farmers to predict floods and calculate the best harvest times
What is the calendar
500
As the levels of the social class pyramid get wider, the size of the population does this
What is increases