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Vocabulary
Geography
Economy
Inventions
Mash Up
100
The amount left over after a need has been met
What is surplus?
100
The slow and windy river with few tributaries
What is the Euphrates River?
100
People who wrote records, letters, and copied stories
What are scribes?
100
A round shaped object used for transportation
What is the wheel?
100
The modern day country located where Mesopotamia was
What is Iraq?
200
A city that governs itself and surrounding territory
What is a city-state
200
The mountain range where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers begin.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
200
A system to get water to dry land through ditches pipes and streams
What is irrigation?
200
A horse drawn carriage used in battle
What is a chariot?
200
A rich mixture of bits of rock and soil
What is silt?
300
A centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning.
What is a civilization?
300
The type of land surrounding Mesopotamia
What is hot, dry deserts?
300
People relied on this to leave behind silt to keep the soil fertile
What is flooding?
300
Allowed for river travel
What is a sailboat?
300
Small branches of a river
What are tributaries?
400
The spreading of new ideas to other places?
What is cultural diffusion?
400
The river that flowed rapidly with many tributaries
What is the Tigris River?
400
The chooser of the rulers
Who are the Gods?
400
Geometry and place value
What is mathematics?
400
Evidence of how farmers raised their crops
What are clay tablets
500
A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
500
A dry season with little rain
What is a drought?
500
A system of writing on clay
What is cuneiform?
500
Allowed for the recording of the Epic of Gilgamesh
What is the invention of writing?
500
A surplus of food meant people could become craft workers, metal workers, or merchants
What is division of labor?