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The land between the two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris)
What is Mesopotamia?
100

Around 2340 B.C., this person created the world's first empire.

Sargon

100

What Does Mesopotamia mean?

The land between two rivers 

200
The land great for growing that stretches in a crescent shape from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean coast.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200

The first major civilization in Mesopotamia was called?

Sumer

200

When the rivers flooded in the spring, it was due to the

heavy rain falling throughout the area

300
Fertile particles found in the river that when left behind make the soil good for farming.
What is silt?
300

A political division where a city controls itself and the surrounding area.

What is a city-state?

300

It is the first written body of laws used to organize society

The code of Hammurabi 

400
Used by the people who lived in Mesopotamia to bring water to the crops on the farms.
What is irrigation?
400

When a king conquers other lands and rules them, he now controls a ________________.

What is a empire?

400

Ancient Mesopotamia is found in what present day country?

Iran

500
The continent Mesopotamia is located on.
What is Asia?
500

This leader created a set of laws that were based off of the philosophy of “eye for an eye”

Hammurabi

500

This term is known as the world’s first writing?

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