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Mystery Category
100
An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory
What is a city state
100
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
What is ally?
100

Persian leader who led the empire to expansion due to great wealth, roads, decentralized government, and a postal system.

Who is Darius the Great?

100
A good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country
What is an import?
100
To water crops.
What is irrigate?
200
A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is barter?
200
A state containing several countries or territories.
What is an empire?
200
Soldiers who fight while riding horses.
What is cavalry?
200
A good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's border.
What is an export?
200
The two rivers that the Mesopotamian plain lies between.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
A system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas and things.
What is cuneiform?
300
The idea that all members of a society must obey the law, even the rich and powerful.
What is rule of law?
300

Unsuccessfully tried to conquer Greece the SECOND time.

Who is Xerxes I?

300
A Phoenician accomplishment. Contains a small set of letters or symbols, each which stands for a sound.
What is alphabet?
300

This allowed the Assyrian Empire to gain power by using better tools and weapons.

What is the iron?

400
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
400
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The Persian leader who rose to power by conquering the Medes.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
400
A civilization having few natural resources, flourished once they began to use ships to trade and created colonies to trade with.
What is Phoenician?
400
The leader of the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
500

Name at least two advancements made by Sumerians.

Bonus if you can name the four most important

What are cuneiform, cylinder seals, the wheel, and sewers? 

500
Give an example of Hammurabi's Code.
What is an eye for an eye, if he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken, if anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death, etc.
500
Money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins.
What is currency?
500

Name the two things that the Phoenicians were most well known for exporting? 

What are timber and purple dye/cloth? 

500

Name the social hierarchy groups of Mesopotamia from highest to lowest. 

HINT - There are five groups

Kings and queens ----> priests ----> craftspeople, merchants and traders--->Farmers and laborers -----> slaves