Agriculture
These leftover crops were traded to cities across the rivers.
What are surplus crops?
This is the form of the first written language.
What is Cuneiform?
This was the first written legal code.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The Akkadians were the first people to develop this system, for delivering messages and goods.
What is a postal system?
This is the earliest form of written language.
What is cuneiform?
The people got paid grain to pay this.
What are taxes?
The Sumerians settled in this part of Mesopotamia.
What is southern Mesopotamia?
The Babylonians used this for defense around their cities.
What are moats?
This group destroyed Akkad in the year 2083 BC.
Who are the Gutians?
These were the main languages in Mesopotamia.
What are the Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian languages?
The first farming villages turned in to these.
What are early cities?
The Sumerians included this type of people in their list of leaders.
What are women?
The first sales contracts were marked with this.
What is a seal?
The city of Akkad was located here.
Where is central Iraq?
Some of the earliest evidence of written language is from these items, used for trading.
What are coins?
This crop was paid to the farmers.
What is grain?
The Sumerians invented this to make transportation easily.
What are wheeled vehicles?
This calendar divided each month into 30 days and a year into 12 months.
What is the Lunar calendar?
This king was a model for later Mesopotamian kings.
Who was Sargon the Great?
This language lasted from the 31st century to 1700 BC.
What is the Sumerian Language?
Some of their jewelry was made of this rock.
What is obsidian?
This event happened in 1900 B.C.E.
What is the conquest of Sumer?
Sun dials and water clocks were used to measure this.
What is time?
The name Akkad was inspired by the name of this city.
What was the city of Agade?
Cuneiform has been studied extensively, thanks to archaeologists recovering these with cuneiform on them.
What are clay tablets?