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100
A person who is skilled in a craft.
What is an artisan?
100
A series of written laws that were made universal to all of the Mesopotamian city-states.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
Mesopotamians invented it to greatly increase the efficiency of farming.
What is the plow?
100
The kingdom of Sumer was located in this region.
What is southern Mesopotamia?
100
To honor their gods, Mesopotamians left these in the temples.
What are carvings of themselves praying? (prayer statues)
200
A Sumerian city and its surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
200
In early sumerian city-states, the ruler was known as this.
What is a priest-king?
200
This Mesopotamian invention made transportation and carrying heavy loads much easier.
What is the wheel?
200
Mesopotamians modified their geography by creating these to control the annual flooding of the rivers.
What are levees?
200
Mesopotamians created gods and goddesses to represent these.
What are the forces of nature?
300
A temple located in the center of a city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Legendary hero of Sumerian culture and subject of the oldest known written human story.
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
Mesopotamians invented this to keep records of their trades and goods.
What is written language?
300
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is located near.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
As a ruler, Hammurabi is best remembered for this.
What is creating a written code of laws?
400
A Mesopotamian person who is skilled in writing.
What is a scribe?
400
The king of Babylon who conquered all of Akkad and Sumer to create a Mesopotamian empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
This nautical invention allowed Mesopotamians to travel longer distances more easily.
What is the sailboat?
400
The meaning of the word Mesopotamia.
What is "The land between the rivers"?
400
The Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia around this year.
What is 3500 B.C.?
500
The wedge-shaped Sumerian writing system.
What is cuneiform?
500
Akkadian king who conquered all of Akkad and Sumer to create the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
500
Based on the cycles of the moon, Mesopotamians invented this to help them plan when to plant their crops.
What is the 12 month calendar?
500
The land called Mesopotamia in ancient times is today part of this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
500
In Sumerian society, the middle class included these people.
Who are artisans and shopkeepers?