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100

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are near what is today called modern day?

Turkey

100
Created the first form of writing without pictures
What is Sumerians
100
The word that means the worship of many gods
What is polytheism
100
Ancient civilizations settled near what land forms
What are rivers
100

In Greek, Mesopotamia means

The land between the rivers

200

The Jewish people are descendants from the city state of...

What is Ur?

200
True or false: music was popular in ancient Sumerian society
What is true
200
Why did Mesopotamians build canals
What is to control the river's flow
200
The invention of this allowed people to settle into communities
What is farming
200

The animal that Mesopotamia really valued was 

What is cattle?

300
Word that means "A large arc of farmland"
What is fertile crescent
300
Sumerians where the first to invent this object that we use daily on things like cars, wagons, and bicycles
What is the wheel
300
Served as a link between Sumerians and the gods
What is priests
300
Why did people tend to settle around rivers or bodies of water?
What is it allowed crops to grow well
300

Cuneiform consisted of about how many symbols?

What is 500?

400
True or false: Babylon is located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq
What is true
400

Young people went to school for the main purpose of being an official writer known as a...

What is a scribe?

400

This person had a covenant with God, which is a special agreement. This is a leading figure in Judaism.

Who is Abraham?

400
What are factors that lead to population growth?
What is plentiful food and water
400

in ancient Mesopotamia a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple

What is a ziggurat

500
The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What is Tigris and Euphrates
500
The name of the type of writing Sumerians invented
What is Cuneiform
500
A king who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
Who is Gilgamesh
500
As societies settled, these developed. Which divided society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy
500

Who was credited with creating the first great empire in history?

Sargon