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100
This is the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This term means an advanced form of culture.
What is civilization?
100
This is the leader of a group of people.
What is a king?
100
This is something written or created by a person who witnessed a historical event.
What is a primary source?
100
This was a farming invention invented by the Mesopotamians.
What is the plow?
200
This is the flat land bordering a river.
What is a floodplain?
200
This is an ancient region of southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
This is a metal made of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
200
This terms means the watering of crops.
What is irrigation?
200
These were the only people able to directly communicate with the gods.
What are the priests?
300
This is the fine soil deposited by floodwaters.
What is silt?
300
This is a political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands.
What is a city-state?
300
This is a picture or drawing that represents a word or an idea.
What is pictograph?
300
This is a group of people with similar customs, background, training, and income.
What is a social class?
300
Name one of the two rivers Mesopotamia lies between.
What is Tigris or Euphrates?
400
This means having little rainfall and warm temperatures- a hot and dry climate.
What is semiarid?
400
This is an ancient Sumerian temple that rose in a series of steplike levels.
What is a ziggurat?
400
This is a sharpened reed used to press markings into clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
400
This is the act of moving from one place to settle in another.
What is migration?
400
These were ditches dug to bring water from the river to Mesopotamians' farms.
What are canals?
500
This is an amount of a good, such as food, in excess of what is needed.
What is a surplus?
500
This is the belief in many gods or goddesses.
What is polytheism?
500
This is a person who specializes in writing and serves as a record keeper.
What is a scribe?
500
This is a skill in a particular work.
What is specialization?
500
Abraham was from this city-state.
What is Ur?