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100
A period when not enough rain or snow fall.
What is a drought?
100
The number of social classes in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is three?
100
Sumerian invention that made planting easier for farmers and provided plants with more water.
What is the plow?
100
Most homes in Mesopotamia were build of this.
What is mud or mud bricks?
100
What is the name of the people who live in lower Mesopotamia (we are studying them).
Who are the Sumerians?
200
Climate that is mostly dry, with very little rain, such as found in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is semiarid?
200
The social class in Mesopotamia made up of farmers, artisans, and most of the free people.
What is the middle class?
200
Sumerian invention that is the equivalent to the modern day pen.
What is a stylus?
200
Having more than what is needed for oneself is.
What is surplus?
200
We write on paper. Sumerians wrote on this.
What is clay or clay tablets?
300
Although unpredictable, Sumerians counted on this to occur once a year in order to grow their crops.
What is a flood?
300
The way that most of the slaves in Mesopotamia were attained.
What are prisoners of war?
300
The writing system made with wedge-shaped marks.
What is cuneiform?
300
The most important structure in the Sumerian city was this.
What is the ziggarut?
300
The Sumerian number system was based on this number.
What is 60?
400
Sumerians learned to control and move water. This is called...
What is irrigation?
400
The top of the Mespotamian social classes were made of these people.
Who are priests, scribes, and kings/queens?
400
An alloy of tin and copper invented by Sumerians to better make tools.
What is bronze?
400
An advanced form of culture.
What is a civilization?
400
Sumerians worshiped more than one god. This is called..
What is polytheism?
500
Mesopotamia was settled between two ___________ named "______" and "_________"
What are rivers, Tigris, and Euphrates?
500
These people were feared and respected in Sumeria due to their ability to relay the message of the gods.
Who were the priests/priestesses?
500
Sumerians did this in order to increase ways of communication and keep a records of goods.
What is invent a writing system?
500
A political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands.
What is a city-state?
500
In a proverb, this is designated as the "mother of all inventions".
What is necessity?