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100
These rivers surrounded Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
In charge of building and maintaining the religious temples
What was the king
100
The system that they invented to bring water to their crops.
What is irrigation
100
They ruled over a city-state.
Who were governors
100
He was at the top of the social pyramid
Who was the king
200
The body of water the rivers flowed into.
What is the Persian Gulf
200
They were in charge of taking care of the gods
What were the priests
200
This was invented to help farming.
What is a plow
200
They wrote down the laws.
Who were scribes
200
Right below the king along with landowners and priests.
What were government officials
300
They had to trade because they had few of these.
What are natural resources
300
The name of the temples Mesopotamians worshiped at
What are zuiggurats
300
Along with a circle being 360 degrees, the other mathematical invention we still use today.
What are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.
300
The first king of Mesopotamia
Who was Sargon
300
They sold/traded goods to other places.
Who were merchants
400
This happened every spring when the snow melted in the mountains.
What is flooding
400
playing music and human sacrifices
What was done at religious ceremonies
400
Their written language
What is cuneiform
400
A series of tiered trees, shrubs, and vines that were designed by King Nebuchadnezzar II.
What were the hanging gardens of Babylon
400
Extra
What is surplus
500
This was deposited by the rivers
What was fertile, rich silt/soil
500
The name for worshiping many gods
What is polytheistic
500
Architectural invention that helped to support and beautify buildings.
What is an arch
500
These were the first written laws.
What were Hammurabi's Code or Hammurabi's Code of Laws
500
They created jewelry and weapons.
Who were artisans