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Farming
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General
100
Plow
What is the name of the invention that helped the farmers prepare their fields for planting?
100
immortal
What is the name given to someone who lives forever?
100
Uruk
What is the name of the city- state that Gilgamesh ruled? What is one of the Sumerian city-states?
100
'Between the Rivers'
What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
100
Myth
What is the name given to a traditional story/legend that explains people's beliefs?
200
irrigation
What is the method of supplying water to the fields by a series of canals, ditches etc. called?
200
Anu
What is the name of the Sky god?
200
Trade
What is the exchange of one thing for another known as?
200
Sumer
What was the southern region of Mesopotamia known as?
200
Polytheism
What is the term used to describe the belief in more than one god?
300
Flood
What is the natural event that would happen each year when the snow on the mountains melted
300
ziggurat
What is the name the Sumerians gave to their religious temples?
300
Scribe
What is the name given to a person who kept records in ancient Mesopotamia?
300
Tigris and Euphrates
What are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
300
Hammurabi's Code
What is Hammurabi's code?
400
drought
What is a severe lack of water known as?
400
Seven
What is the number of main gods that the Sumerians worshipped?
400
Artisan
What is another name for a skilled craftsperson?
400
Iraq
What is the modern name of the area where Mesopotamia was located?
400
King Sargon the Second
What is the name of the king of the Assyrian Empire?
500
levee
What is the barrier of mud that prevented the river from flooding its banks called?
500
Enlil
What is the name of the god of wind?
500
'Burden Tax'
What was the period when citizens had to give up their time to do 'community work' known as?
500
Fertile Crescent
What is the region that was the site of the earliest civilization know as?
500
Ninevah
What is the name of the capital city of Assyria?