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Literature
Hammurabi
Stone Age
Sumerian Inventions
Geography
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The oldest piece of literature in the world.
What is "The Epic of Gilgamesh"?
100
The accomplishment Hammurabi is best known for.
What is the code of law.
100
The earliest period of human history, or the Old Stone age. (is also called...)
What is the Paleolithic period.
100
Invention that helped carry people and things from place to place while on land.
What is the wheel?
100
The name for the Southern portion of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
A long poem that tells the story of a hero.
What is an epic?
200
The city Hammurabi's empire was named after.
What is Babylon.
200
One of the most important events in human history.
What is the Farming Revolution.
200
Device that divided time into segments based on the pattern of the moon.
What is the calendar?
200
The present day nation that was home to Sumerians in ancient times.
What is Iraq?
300
The kind of markings used to write in Sumer.
What is cuneiform.
300
The nickname of King Hammurabi
What is "Strong King of Bable"?
300
The man who's body was found frozen.
Who is Otzi the Iceman.
300
Tool that made farming easier in Sumer.
What is the plow?
300
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
Gilgamesh's best friend.
Who is Enkidu?
400
The number of years that Hammurabi's Babylonian Empire lasted.
What is 1,000 years.
400
The period that people learned to grow food.
What is the neolithic period.
400
Allowed sailors to travel without muscle power.
What is the sailboat?
400
The area of lush, fertile soil that curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is the Fertile Crescent.
500
The city that Gilgamesh was king of.
What is Uruk?
500
The number of laws in the code.
What is 282?
500
One of the oldest cities in the world that is located on what is now the West Bank between Israel and Jordan.
What is Jericho?
500
System of math used to measure fields and put up buildings.
What is geometry?
500
The religious building that stood in the center of most Mesopotamian cities.
What is a ziggurat.