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100
These are the two rivers Sumerians settled within.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
100
These people kept records of history and finances.
What were scribes?
100
A belief in many gods is called this.
What is polytheism?
100
This technology moved water from one place to another.
What is irrigation?
100
This type of government has a king in full control.
What is a monarchy?
200
Silt from flooded rivers provided the means for this nickname of the Sumerian region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Instead of a coin system, Sumerians used this for "purchasing."
What is trade/barter system?
200
This temple was built in the middle of city-states representing the importance of their beliefs.
What is a Ziggurat?
200
This advancement was the first form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
A pyramid of status in politics
What is a hierarchy?
300
Ancient Mesopotamia would be found in this common day country.
What is Iraq?
300
Cuneiform, the written language of Sumer, used these two objects to keep records.
What are clay tablets and a stylus?
300
Gods were believed to control the fates of these types of events.
What are natural events?
300
The emergence of the wheel led to these "carts" assisting in battle.
What are war chariots?
300
This code of laws was the first type of written justice established by a civilization.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
Because of this idea of overabundance of crops, other villagers could become artisans.
What is surplus?
400
Because of fertile land and socialization, these groups of people created this type of settlement.
What is a city-state?
400
This city state job is high on the hierarchy because of the belief that they had a near direct connection to the Gods.
What are priests?
400
The base 60 design remains vital today within these two "timely" advances.
What are minutes and hours?
400
Major taxes included sheep, cows and this type of "working tax"
What is labor obligation?
500
One benefit of living near a river is use of natural resources (fresh water) and another benefit is...
What is 1. trade 2. hunting animals 3. natural defense barrier 4. irrigation
500
Name two types of irrigation systems used by Ancient Mesopotamians.
What are clay piping, levees, and ditches?
500
Ziggurats were known to be the closest destination to the heavens and Gods because of these
What are staircases or steps?
500
Annual flooding could be charted by this lunar cycle invention.
What is a calendar?
500
Political hierarchy wasn't necessarily based on skill set or survival importance, but more likely based on this ideal of society.
What is godly anthropomorphic-ism?