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This mountain range is where the Tigris and Euphrates starts
What is the Zagros Mountains?
100
A large temple that was utilized for religious purposes
What is a Ziggurat?
100
This era is known as the Middle Stone Age
What is the Mesolithic Era?
100
Fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as sediment, especially in a river or harbor.
What is Silt?
100
The Tigris and Euphrates river exits out into this large body of water
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
According to historians and archeologists, this area classifies the beginning of civilization.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
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200
This city-state was the center of the first known empire known to history
What is Akkad?
200
This city-state was located alongside the Euphrates River and had easy access to the Persian Gulf.
Hint: It was a major center for trade.
What is Ur?
200
Sumerian farmers began to create irrigation systems to provide water for their fields. They built earth walls, called ________, along the sides of the river to prevent flooding
What are levees?
200
What were the earliest set of laws called?
The Code of Hammurabi
300
This technological invention helped control water flow on farms and around the cities
What is an irrigation system?
300
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
What is civilization?
300
What are the names of the two rivers Mesopotamia is between
Tigris and Euphrates
300
It was created to celebrate a military victory by Sargon's grandson. King Naram-Sin.
What is the Victory Stele?
300
What did the people of Mesopotamia use instead of medicine?
What are plants, herbs, and animal parts?
400
This written language eventually evolved into cuneiforms
What are pictographs?
400
Wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia and Persia
What are cuneiforms?
400
What type of people would be found in the lowest level of a stratified society?
Who are Laborer's and slaves?
400
The Paleolithic era is known as...
What is the Old Stone Age?
400
This key component contributes to the consistent abundance of food in a civilization?
What is a stable food supply?
500
This geographical region is south or southwest of the Euphrates River.
What is the Arabian desert?
500
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is the land between two rivers?
500
After about ______ years, the Akkadian Empire fell to new invaders from the north.
What is 200 years?
500
What was Cuneiform usually written on?
Clay or stone
500
This technological invention allowed Sumerians to create bowls, cups, and vases.
What is a potter's wheel?
