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100

The name of the area where Mesopotamia is located.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

100

A tool that is used to help prepare the soil for planting seeds.

What is a plow?

100

The name of the first Mesopotamian civilization that began in the south. 

What are the Sumerians?
100

The fictional king of Uruk who goes looking for immortality after his friend (Enkidu) dies. 

Who is Gilgamesh?

100

Two of the most valuable crops for the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia were _________ and _________.

What is barley and dates?

200

The names of the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia. 

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

200

A specific number that helps us measure time. 

What is sixty?

200

The name of the civilization that invented stele (3D sculptures) and is considered the world's first empire?

What is Akkad (Akkadian)?

200

The Babylonian King who wrote the first laws in an "if _____, then ____" style. (hint: An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth)

Who is Hammurabi?

200

This is the term for a writer in ancient times.  

What is scribe?

300

The name of the modern-day country where Mesopotamia used to be. 

What is Iraq?

300
Type of wedge-shaped writing that uses shapes and lines to make characters. 

What is cuneiform?

300

The name of the civilization that was governed by a harsh code of laws, and contained one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the "hanging gardens."

What is Babylon?

300

The Akkadian king who conquered Sumer and expanded the Mesopotamian empire. 

Who is Sargon? 

300

This is what a temple was called in Mesopotamia. 

What is ziggurat? 

400

The capital of Assyria. 

What is Nineveh?

400

A tool that was first used to make pottery, but then used for transportation devices.

What is the wheel?

400

The civilization that conquered Babylon, but swore to protects its culture. They were known for their iron weapons, and for being great conquerors. 

What is Assyria (Assyrians)? 

400

The Babylonian king who built the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" for his wife (Amytis of Medea).

Who is Nebuchadnezzar II? 

400

Two ways that Mesopotamians developed a system for irrigation. 

What is they dug canals and created dams (levees)?

500

The capital of Sargon's empire. 

What is Agade?

500

A transportation device that is made up of two wheels attached to a carriage.

What is the chariot?

500

The civilization that wrote the earliest known piece of literature, "The Epic of Gilgamesh." 

Who are the Sumerians? What is Sumer?

500

The grandson of Sargon the Great, who expanded Akkadian empire even further, and he was considered its last great king. 

Who is Naram-Sin?

500

The Mesopotamians were _____________ and believed in many Gods.

What is polytheistic?