Inventions
This invention may have been first used to make pottery and was later attached to ploughs, carts, and war chariots.
What is the wheel?
This country is the most covered by the Fertile Crescent.
What is Iraq?
King Hammurabi came from this group of people?
Who are the Babylonians?
Mesopotamia was divided into many of these self-governing urban centres with their own ruler.
What are city-states?
This song is well known from this film.
What is Guardians of the Galaxy?
The Sumerians combined copper with tin to make this (third place) metal.
What is bronze?
This country is the smallest on our Middle East map.
What is Qatar?
Sumerians traded with their neighbours, and archaeologists have found items from as far away as India and this north African country.
What is Egypt?
Sumerians believed their cities were created by these, another name for gods/goddesses.
What are deities?
This song comes from this film franchise.
What is Fast and the Furious?
They dug channels and canals that allowed water to flow from river to fields, thus creating this.
What is irrigation?
This country is directly east or Iraq (and is only one letter off).
What is Iran?
Before military leaders and kings were in charge, these people were probably the first government leaders.
Who were priests?
When a woman married, her parents gave her this - money or goods to use as she wished (normally goes to the husband's family).
What is a dowry?
This song comes form this award-winning film.
What is Titanic?
Sumerians used these enclosed ovens for making pottery and bricks - the high temperature created much more durable pottery and bricks.
What are kilns?
This country is the furthest north on our map and borders both the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
What is Turkey?
These are the two rivers that allowed Sumerians to settle and create one of the first human civilizations.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This group of people were at the bottom of the Sumerian social order (kings were at the top).
What are slaves?
This song comes from this recent blockbuster film.
What is Wicked?
Sumerian priests studied these celestial bodies to calculate the best times for planting crops.
What are the stars?
This two-word country is directly south of Iraq.
What is Saudi Arabia?
We know the most about this group because many of their written records survived.
Who were the Sumerians?
This was the most popular drink in Mesopotamia.
What is beer?
This song comes from this visually stunning film.
What is Spiderman into the Spider-Verse?