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100
Modern country location of Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
100
King responsible for first written law
What is Hammurabi?
100

Writing using pictures to represent words

What are pictographs?

100

This invention allowed merchants to move to other city-states to trade. 

What are sailboats?

100
This was invented to help get the fields ready for planting.
What is the plow?
200
Greek word for "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
200

The term used to describe a city with an independent government.

What is a city-state?

200
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
Term that refers to the ability to tame plants and animals.
What is Domestication?
200

These helped to control the water from the rivers and to block from flooding.

What are levees?

300
Name the 2 major rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
Citizens pay these to the government in return for protection and services that make the lives of the people better.
What are taxes.
300
Built as temples to worship the gods
What are ziggurats?
300
This invention helped the people move their goods to market.
What is the wheel?
300

the process of growing crops, and raising of livestock

What is agriculture?

400
The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as this.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
400
A professional writer in the ancient world.
What is a scribe?
400

The term that describes a person who buys and sells goods, especially in large amounts

What is a merchant?

400
This is the name for the wedge shaped writing of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
400

What terms explains soil that is full of nutrients and helps grow a lot of crops

What is fertile?

500

Describe what Mesopotamia was like- the climate, and land (everywhere other than next to the flooded river areas 

What is a hot, dry desert

500

What civilization was known for their military strength, power and weapons?

What is the Assyrian Empire?

500

the business of buying and selling items

trade

500
A worker skilled in making something like jewelry or pots
What is an artisan?
500

Term that refers to extra goods that can be bought and sold.

What is surplus?