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Stuck in the Middle
Water Water Everywhere
Launch of the iWheel 6
State of the Empire Address
Tale of 2 City-States
100
These two rivers were the boundaries of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
These were used to bring water to crops in the dry season.
What are canals?
100
This Sumerian invention led to better transportation like carts and chariots.
What is the wheel?
100
This emperor of Babylon was the first to write down his code of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
This was the capital city of the Assyrians.
What is Ninevah?
200
This word means "land between the rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Good soil and irrigation lead to more crops which creates this.
What is a food surplus?
200
Sumerians invented this first system of writing?
What is Cuneiform?
200
This Chaledean emperor rebuilt Babylon as his capital and build the famous hanging gardens for his wife.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
200
This powerful city-state conquered Sumer after the fall of Sargon's empire.
What is Ur?
300
Hunter-gatherers eventually settled in Mesopotamia because of this important feature of the land.
What is fertile soil?
300
This helps to create division of labor.
What is a food surplus?
300
Cuneiform is a form of writing that uses these symbols to represent words.
What are pictographs?
300
This man created the world's first empire. His capital city was Akkad.
Who was Sargon I?
300
This is made up of a city and the land around it.
What is a city-state?
400
This is a large arc of fertile land that includes Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
This is what we call a system of supplying water to crops.
What is irrigation?
400
This is a long poem that tells the story of a hero and his legendary adventures.
What is an epic?
400
This monarch was really king of Uruk, but he is most known for his legendary deeds.
Who was Gilgamesh?
400
This pyramid-shaped temple formed the center of Sumerian city-states.
What is the ziggurat?
500
This area outside of the city was where farmland was located and is identified by this vocabulary word.
What is the rural area?
500
This is deposited by rivers during flooding and creates fertile soil.
What is silt?
500
This form of writing was invented by the Phoenicians and uses letters to represent sounds and sounds are combined to make words.
What is an alphabet?
500
In addition to iron weapons, the Assyrians used this invention well to conquer the Fertile Crescent.
What is the chariot?
500
People built these around their city-states to protect them from invaders.
What are walls?