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Geography
Sumer
Babylon
Assyria
Vocabulary
100
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means this.
What is land between two rivers?
100
People from Sumer are called this.
What are Sumerians?
100
The Babylonian Empire was centered in this capital city.
What is Babylon?
100
The capital city of the Assyrian Empire was this.
What is Assyria?
100
This word means extra.
What is a surplus?
200
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is between are these.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
Each city in Sumer had its own one of these.
What is a King?
200
The Babylonian Empire ruled for this many years.
What is 900 years?
200
The Assyrians were really good at this.
What is fighting or war?
200
A step pyramid.
What is a Ziggurat?
300
The rivers of Mesopotamia are nicknamed this because of the rich farmland and flash flooding.
What are the rivers of life and death.
300
This made Sumer weak against outside invaders.
What is fighting among each other or civil war?
300
Babylon made most of their wealth from this.
What is trade?
300
Explain why Assyria was good at war. (Does not have to be in the form of a question.)
They were located in the center of Mesopotamia, which meant they were constantly attacked by outside invaders.
300
A traveling group of traders.
What is a Caravan?
400
Mesopotamia is part of a bigger land region called this because of its rich farmland and how it is shaped.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
Ancient written language in Sumer and Mesopotamia was called this.
What is Cuneiform?
400
Hammurabi's Code was important because of this.
What is it was the first time laws were written down?
400
The Assyrians invented these two war machines.
What is the catapult and battering ram?
400
A city that also has its own independent government and/or king.
What is a city- state?
500
Mesopotamia is no longer called Mesopotamia, but it is now known as this country.
What is Iraq?
500
This man conquered Sumer.
Who was King Saragon of Akkadia?
500
Hammurabi's code is based on the belief of this saying.
What is an "eye for an eye" ?
500
The Assyrians were conquered by these two groups of people.
What is the Chaldeans and the Medes?
500
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?