Geography
Rise of the Sumerians
Achievements
Beliefs
Empires
100
This area is named for its rich soil and shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent
100
Sumerian city-states included these areas.
What are the city and its surrounding farmland?
100
These 4 inventions or technologies led to an increase in the movement of goods.
What are ...
*Sails *Wheel
*Sailboats *Wheeled vehicles
100
This is the worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
100
This king created the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
200
This body of water is located at number 5.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
Sumerian city-states each worshipped their on specific ______.
What is god or gods?
200
These 3 inventions allowed Mesopotamian civilizations to grow.
What are the wheel, plow, and irrigation?
200
This cultural achievement is where Mesopotamians would go to worship their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
200
This is the first empire.
What is the Akkadian or Akkad empire?
300
This body of water is located at number 6?
What is the Tigris River?
300
Each city- state was governed by its own ____________.
What is a king/ monarch?
300
This cultural achievement was the first written epic and an example of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
300
Mesopotamian believed that their gods controlled ___________.
What is nature?
300
This was the king of the Babylonians.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This body of water is located at number 4.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
This development led to advanced civilizations by producing food / economic surpluses which led to specialized jobs, population growth, the development of villages and cities
What is farming or agriculture?
400
The Sumerians used this invention to keep track of tax records.
What is cuneiform?
400
Mesopotamians religious beliefs explained ____________.
What is why things happened in nature?
400
Hammurabi's Law Code treated people differently based on this.
What is their social class?
500
This fertile soil made farming possible in Mesopotamia.
What is silt?
500
The following are characteristics of Sumerian _____________.
- included the city and the farmland around them.
- worshipped its own specific god.
- had its own army.
- had its own king or monarch.
What are city-states?
500
This cultural achievement allowed for greater food production and the growth of cities.
What is the plow?
500
Each Mesopotamian city-state believed their own ____________ watch over it and protect it.
What is its own god?
500
Hammurabi posted his laws on stone pillars in his empire, achieving this principle of justice.
What is laws were written and available for all to see?