This is the desert that borders Mesopotamia in the south.
What is the Syrian desert?
100
The village was the center of this in ancient Mesopotamian villages.
What is trading and crafting?
100
These people are the top of the Sumerian class structure.
Who are priests and the King?
100
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers had uses other than irrigation.
What is drinking, fishing, washing, or transportation?
100
These were used for writing in ancient Mesopotamia.
What are stone/clay tablets?
200
This is the shape of the region of Mesopotamia.
What is a rainbow?
200
The surplus of crops allowed Mesopotamian people to do this.
What is specialize in crafts?
200
The cities of Sumer grew to this population.
What is 10,000 people?
200
Ancient Mesopotamians prayed to the gods for these two things.
What is rain and good crops?
200
This code of laws were written by the ancient Mesopotamians.
What is the code of Hammurabi?
300
The Fertile Crescent is located here.
What is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
300
The Mesopotamian people domesticated these animals.
What are cattle, dogs, pigs, goats, donkeys and sheep.
300
The region of Sumer is located here.
What is southern Mesopotamia?
300
This is the climate of Mesopotamia.
What is hot and dry?
300
Ancient Mesopotamians are famous for this art tool.
What is the pottery wheel?
400
This is the body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates dump into in the extreme southern part of Mesopotamia
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
This is the form of writing developed by the ancient Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
400
These are the three main gods of Sumer.
What is An, the father god; Inanna, goddess of love and war; Enki, god of water?
400
These were created because managing the Mesopotamian water supply was so important.
Why were laws created in ancient Mesopotamia?
400
This is an example of mythology or legend in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
This body of water is near the Arabian Desert in the south of the Mesopotamian region. This body of water doesn't receive water from the Euphrates & Tigris rivers.
What is the Red Sea?
500
Ancient Mesopotamians used these methods to create a system of irrigation.
What are canals, pipes, dams, levees and storage ponds.
500
These are important Sumerian inventions.
What is the wheel, the sailboat, the 12 month calendar, the 60 minute hour and the 60 second minute?
500
These crops were domesticated by Mesopotamian people.
What are wheat, barley, dates and onions?
500
Ancient Mesopotamians domesticated animals for these three reasons.
What is needing animals for food, clothing and work in the fields.