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a large arc of farmland
What is Fertile Crescent?
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Served as the link between the Sumerians and the gods?
What is a priest?
100
The two land features that gave Mesopotamia its name?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
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The resource for which Phoenicia was well known.
What is cedar wood?
100
Sumerians used these to make symbols on clay tablets.
What is a knife?
200
located in the countryside
What is rural?
200
located near present-day Baghdad, Iraq
What is Babylon?
200
Tall pyramid shaped temples towers built to honor the gods
What is a ziggurat?
200
Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both built up.
What is Babylon?
200
This city-state rose to power after the death of Sargon I.
Who is Ur?
300
long poems that tell the story of a hero
What is an epic?
300
The number of years ago Hunter-gather groups first settled in Mesopotamia.
What is 20,000?
300
Sargon's empire has this in common with other Mesopotamian city-states.
What is fighting with surrounding city-states?
300
Trade and the alphabet spread along this trade route.
Who are the Phoenicians?
300
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
a division by society by rank or class
What is social hierarchy?
400
A way to control the river's flow.
What is a canal?
400
a form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols
What is cuneiform?
400
This army defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon I?
400
Mesopotamia was located on this continent.
What is Asia?
500
a way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
500
City-states fought each other for enough farmland for this reason.
What is growing food?
500
Hittites and Assyrians used these 2 technologies in battle.
What are iron weapons and chariots?
500
This king was known as a legendary figure in Sumerain literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
List in order the civilizations and empires.
What is Sumer Akkad Babylonian Hittites Kassites Assyrians Chaldeans and Phoenicians