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Early civilizations started around a...
What is a river?
100
A temple in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
100
King who developed a harsh code of law; consequences depended on your class.
Who is Hammurabi?
100

Invention of the ancient Sumerians that made transporting things easier.

What is the wheel?

100

Due to their lack of power and status, slaves were placed here on the social pyramid.

What is at the bottom?

200
Land between the two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
200

The people of ancient Mesopotamia believed in many gods making them...

What is polytheistic?

200

Due to their power and position in society, kings were placed here on the social pyramid.

What is at the top?

200
The written language of the ancient Mesopotamians.

What is cuneiform?

200

The idea that all members of a society have to obey the law.

What is "rule of law"?

300
Modern day nation where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq?
300

To supply water to.

What is irrigation?

300

Form of government in ancient Mesopotamia.

What is a monarchy?

300
Hammurabi's Code was inscribed on a...

What is a stele?

300

Empire from Mesopotamia that developed a battering ram.

Who are the Assyrians?

400
What rivers left behind after they flooded that fertilized the soil.
What is silt?
400

The first monotheistic religion that is still practiced today.

What is Judaism?

400
List the four empires of Mesopotamia.

01) Akkadian Empire

02) Babylonian Empire

03) Assyrian Empire

04) Neo-Babylonian Empire

400

People who went to school to learn how to read and write.

What are scribes?

400

One reason the empires of Mesopotamia declined.

What is:  *death of original ruler weakens empire

              *invasions/rebellions

              *civil war

500
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500

The six steps of the irrigation process...

01) Canals

02) Levees

03) Breaking open levees to flood entire fields

04) Plowing

05) Shadoofs

06) Artificial lakes

500
Political divisions used by the governments in Mesopotamia where a powerful city controlled itself and nearby land.
What is a city-state?
500

The main reason the ancient Mesopotamians created a written language.

*To keep track of traded goods.

*To keep track of surplus crops.

*To keep records of taxes.

500

The first civilization to emerge in the Fertile Crescent.

What were the Sumerians?