Geography
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is located in between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
A land between two rivers
A temple used to worship Gods
What is a ziggurat?
These people are the citizens of Sumer...
Who are Sumerians?
This is the writing system that the people of Sumer created
What is Cuneiform?
This present-day country is where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq?
These are societies that have cities, organized governments, etc.
What are civilizations?
The amount of Gods that the citizens of Sumer believed in
What is over 3000?
The citizens of Sumer used these tablets to write on
What are clay tablets?
The Assyrians got this metal from meteorites and was known as "metal from Heaven."
What is iron?
This crescent-shaped region is located among Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A group of many different lands under one ruler
What is an empire?
This king ruled Babylon and created his own code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
The most important invention that the citizens of Sumer developed
What is writing?
This sharp-point tool was used to write Cuneiform
What is a stylus?
This city is the capital of the Babylonian Empire
(hint: it's a city in the Bible)
What is Babylon?
A person who copies and writes out documents
What is a scribe?
This term means "believing in many Gods"
What is polytheism?
These specific people in Sumer bought and sold goods
Who are traders?
The place value system developed by Sumerians based on this number
(hint: how many seconds in a minute, how many minutes in an hour)
What is the number 60?
Mesopotamia includes parts of these modern-day countries
(only name one)
What is: Turkey, Kuwait, Iran, and Syria
The study of new beginnings
What is archeology?
This social class included enslaved people
What is the lower class?
The two favorite crops of the Sumer citizens included
What are barley and dates?
The method of building dams and channels to supply water to dry land
What is irrigation?