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Mesopotamia
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People from the area of Sumer were called this.
What are Sumerians?
100
A tool that made planting crops much easier.
What is the plow?
100
They Sumerian style of writing is called this.
What is cuneiform?
100
The name "Mesopotamia" means this.
What is "between two rivers"?
100
In the Neolithic Age, increased food supply led to an increase in this.
What is population?
200
These people lived closest to the ziggurats in Sumerian cities.
Who are the priests or the wealthy people?
200
The name of the Sumerian writing system using clay tablets and a wedge-shaped tool called a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
200
The people of Mesopotamia wrote on tablets made of this.
What is clay?
200
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
This group of people made cave paintings.
What is Paleolithic or Cro-Magnon?
300
This is another name for skilled workers.
What are artisans?
300
A wedge shaped stone that helped Sumerians build arches in their buildings.
What is a keystone?
300
Professional writers.
What are scribes?
300
Mesopotamia is also sometimes called this.
What is the "Fertile Crescent" or "The Cradle of Civilization"?
300
People in Neolithic villages chose this person to keep order and settle disputes over land.
What is a chief?
400
This ruler created the first empire when he united the city-states of Sumer after he conquered them.
Who is Sargon I?
400
This invention helped with transportation and making pottery.
What is the wheel?
400
They wrote with a tool made from a sharpened reed called this.
What is a stylus?
400
One of the most important areas of Mesopotamia was an area or country called this.
What is Sumer?
400
These are the tallest of the landforms on earth.
What are mountains?
500
This ruler established a code of law and a justice system in Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
The people of Mesopotamia developed this based on the cycles of the moon.
What is a calendar?
500
They symbols used in early forms of picture writing are called this.
What are pictographs?
500
These are two modern countries located the the area of Mesopotamia today.
What are Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon...?
500
Nonliving substances found beneath the earth's surface that have helped people live better. Examples include gold, iron, copper, or salt.
What are minerals?