A crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land
What is Fertile Crescent
100
The belief in or worship of more than one god
What is Polytheism
200
An ancient region in West Asia between the tigers and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq
What is Mesopotamia
200
Ancient writing used by the Sumerians
What is Cuneiform
300
The temples were the Sumerian people worshiped their gods
What is Ziggurat
300
Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great "the Great King", was a Semitic Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC
What is Sargon
400
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is a City-State
400
King of Babylonia
What is a Hammurabi
500
How did geography promote civilization in Mesopotamia
The fertile soil in the land helped the people there grow crops and promote trade