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100
Mesopotamia is located in this present-day country
What is Iraq
100
This was invention was created to break up soil for easier farming
What is the plow
100
This was the first empire ever, united by Sargon the Great
What is the Akkadian Empire
100
The amount of natural resources in Mesopotamia could be described as:
What is scarce
100
Fjlat land bordering the banks of a river
What is floodplain
200
Describe the climate of Mesopotamia
What is hot and dry, or arid
200
This invention is a system that waters dry land using ditches, pipes, or streams.
What is irrigation
200
This empire was ruled by a powerful king names Hammurabi, who created a code of law
What is the Babylonian Empire
200
Because of the lack of natural resources like wood and stone, Mesopotamian houses were often built using these materials:
What are mud brick or reed
200
A political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands
What is a city-state
300
Mesopotamia is located between these two geographical features
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
300
This is considered to be the first true written language
What is cuneiform
300
This empire is remembered for having great warriors and weapons.
What is the Assyrian Empire
300
This is how Mesopotamians acquired the natural resources they lacked
What is trade
300
A temple built atop a series of increasingly smaller platforms
What is a ziggurat
400
Mesopotamia literally means this:
What is "the land between two rivers"
400
This invention was created by Hammurabi to ensure justice for all his people
What is a code of law (Hammurabi's Code)
400
This empire had a very cruel ruler named Nebuchadnezzar II
What is The Chaldean Empire
400
This allowed Mesopotamian people to have many different jobs, and not all focus on farming
What is a surplus
400
The first known writing system, which used wedge-shaped symbols
What is cuneiform
500
This fine, fertile soil is carried by rivers and deposited on nearby lands (floodplains)
What is silt
500
This invention has many uses including making transportation and pottery easier
What is the wheel
500
This was the greatest and largest Mesopotamian empire, and instituted a policy of tolerance under emperor Cyrus
What is the Persian Empire
500
These institutions were places of learning, trade, and worship in Sumerian society
What is a ziggurat
500
Many different lands and peoples brought under the control of one ruler
What is an empire