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This means "around" in Latin.
What is circa?
100
This is a place you live in.
What is dwelling?
100
This is a set of stones used for grinding grain
What is a quern?
100
This area includes countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and North Africa.
What is the Near East
100
This is a dry riverbed in the Near East.
What is a wadi?
200
This is the process of preparing and farming land
What is Cultivation?
200
These people were traders who became wealthy from selling dye made from crushed sea snails
Who are the Phoenicians?
200
This is a semi-legendary king who went on adventures in a poem.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
This is a large monumental structure in Sumerian cities, used for religious rituals and housing shrines and temples.
What is a ziggurat?
200
This is the system of writing developed by the Sumerians and used by later people in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
300
This was Gilgamesh's former rival, who became his closest friend.
Who is Enkidu?
300
This man was the founder of the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon the Great?
300
This area is also called the Holy Land.
What is Palestine?
300
These people were extremely warlike and conquered much of Mesopotamia.
Who are the Assyrians?
300
These are the two great rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
This was the monster who was killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the cedar forest.
What is Humbaba?
400
This was possibly the world's first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
400
This was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
400
This monument was built by Nebuchadnezzar II as part of a system of walls around Babylon.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
400
This man was king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire during its peak, circa 600 BC.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
500
This is the number of Laws in the Code of Hammurabi.
What is 282?
500
These were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II for his homesick wife.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
500
This area includes Mesopotamia, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
This man was king of Babylon and established laws that seem harsh to us
Who is Hammurabi?
500
These semi-nomadic people caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.
Who are the Amorites?