The Euphrates is one river that the civilization started near, the other river was named this.
What is Tigris?
100
The world's first system of writing is known as this.
What is cuneiform?
100
This was the first civilization that ruled Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
100
This group of people was found at the bottom of Sumerian Society.
Who are the slaves?
100
This was a set of 282 laws created during the Babylon Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Codes?
200
Mesopotamia is known as the land between the rivers. It is also known for this name based on the shape and the fertile farmland.
What is Fertile Crescent?
200
The person in society that was in charge of the writing.
What is scribe?
200
This empire created Hammurabi's Code and took power from the Sumerians.
What is Babylon?
200
This group of people was important and high in society and led religious ceremonies.
Who are the priests?
200
This is the science and designing of buildings.
What is architecture?
300
The people of Mesopotamia had to find a way to supply water to their land. They did this by using this system which is still used today.
What is irrigation?
300
This was invented to help break up the soil and make farming easier.
What is a plow?
300
This empire had a strong and powerful military and they took power of the area from Babylon.
What is Assyrians?
300
This group of people was just as powerful in society as the skilled laborers.
Who were the traders.
300
This invention allowed people to spin clay and create pottery more easily.
What is the potter's wheel?
400
The reason the soil in the land is so good for farming is partly due to the rivers bringing this to the land which is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
400
Sumerian math was based on a math system based on this number.
What is 60?
400
This empire was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar and they defeated the Assyrians.
What is the Chaldeans?
400
This group of people was just as powerful in society as the unskilled laborers.
Who were the farmers?
400
The term used to describe a way to communicate using picture symbols.
What is pictographs?
500
This means to produce more than the needed amount of food.
What is surplus?
500
This building became an impressive pyramid-shaped temple in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This was the last empire that took over brought trade and created the world's first alphabet.
What is the Phoenicians?
500
As you move higher up on the social pyramid, people gain more of this.
What is power/rights?
500
The Sumerians believed in many gods, this is known as this term.