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Vocabulary
True/False
People of the Fertile Crescent
Fertile Crescent and Lands Around It
Miss Granche's Choice
100
The worship of many gods
Polytheism
100
Sumerian Women could be religious leaders.
True
100
Who served as the link between the Sumerians and the Gods?
Priests
100
What two rivers gave Mesopotamia it's name?
Tigris and Euphrates
100
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Between the rivers
200
What is an empire?
A land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
200
Babylon was located near present-day Iraq.
True
200
Who established the world's first empire?
Sargon
200
Since religion was the basis of Sumerian life, __________ dominated Sumerians' city-states centers.
Ziggurat Temples
200
How many codes (or laws) did Hammurabi create?
282
300
A large arc of farmland
The Fertile Crescent
300
Sumerians excelled in math and made advances in medicine.
True
300
The army of ___________ defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia.
Sargon
300
What two areas did the Sumerians excel in?
Math and Science
300
Sumerians used sharp _______ to make symbols on clay tablets.
Styluses
400
What is irrigation?
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
400
Hunter-gatherer groups first settled in Mesopotamia more than 20,000 years ago.
False
400
A king known as _________ became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Gilgamesh
400
Why did the Mesopotamians build canals?
To control the river's flow
400
Why did city-states in Sumer fight each other?
To gain more farmland.
500
The world's first form of writing. (Must say it correctly!!!)
Cuneiform
500
The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on its population.
False
500
What did both Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both do?
Built up Babylon
500
The resource for which Phoenicia was well known was
Cedar wood
500
The city-state of ______ rose to power after the death of Sargon.
Ur