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The world's first major law code was written by this person.
Who was Hammurabi?
Mesopotamian cities that were independent and ruled by its own king.
What are city-states?
Around 2270 B.C., this group invaded Mesopotamia.
Who are the Akkadians?
The very special stone that was placed in the king's crown for the Sed festival.
What is the lapis lazuli?
This group of people conquered and unified the Sumerians.
Who are the Akkadians?
This group of people were the first to domesticate animals and develop irragation.
Who are the Sumerians?
This Mesopotamian hero was seeking the secret to eternal life.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Egypt is much hotter and dryer than in this place.
What is Mesopotamia?
This wedge shaped writing was invented by merchants.
What is cuneiform?
This is where Mesopoptamia is located.
What is West Asia?
A poem or story about the deeds of a great hero.
What is an epic?
Who is Hammurabi?
The two great rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This means the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This word means wedge shaped.
What is cuneiform?
These people invented cuneiform.
Who are merchants?
A festival where a pharaoh celebrates 30 years on the throne.
What is the Sed festival?
This king unified all the Sumerian cities into a single kingdom.
These structures were at the center of Mesopotamian cities and dedicated as temples to the city's gods.
What are ziggurats?
The name of the river that Anen and Merniptah took to get to Sumer.
What is the Nile River?