Show:
Vocabulary
Odds and Ends
Geography
Details, details
100
A complex society.
What is civilization?
100
A record keeper.
What is a scribe?
100
One of the rivers that runs through Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris or Euphrates.
100
The earliest known civilization of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
A Sumerian city surrounded by farmland.
What is a city-state?
200
Skilled workers.
What is an artisan?
200
The climate of Mesopotamia.
What is hot and dry?
200
This king was best known for his code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
A group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
300
The world's oldest known civilization.
What is Sumer?
300
The flooding of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is unpredictable?
300
He created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
400
Probably the most important invention of the Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform or written language?
400
This helped the Sumerians water their crops more efficiently.
What is irrigation?
400
The shape of Mesopotamia.
What is cresent shaped?
400
Benefits of the rivers to Mesopotamia.
What is water for drinking and cooking, transportation, bathing. water crops?