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100
What two rivers surround Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates.
100
Rulers were often closely related with _______?
What is religion.
100
Leader who created a code of laws for daily life.
What is Hammurabi.
100
The Mesopotamians used this to transport water to their crops.
What is irrigation.
100
This invention allowed the Sumerians to be able to trade and transport goods over land.
What is the wheel?
200
The area Mesopotamia is in, important for its "rich" soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent.
200
What type of belief system did the Mesopotamians have?
What is polytheistic.
200
Leader who re-bulit Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture.
What is Nebuchadnezzar.
200
The first system of writing.
What is cuneiform.
200
Pyramid-like structure used for worship.
What is a ziggurat.
300
Name the two modern day countries that the two rivers of Mesopotamia run through.
What is Iraq and Syria.
300
What was the highest class in Mesopotamia?
What are kings and priests.
300
The Mesopotamians recorded their laws and other important information on ________.
What is the clay tablet.
300
What invention allowed Mesopotamians to plant grain and other crops more easily?
What is plow?
300
The class of people who kept records.
What are scribes?
400
The two rivers of Mesopotamia flow into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
What was the lowest class in Mesopotamia
What are slaves.
400
The Sumerians believed that ____ ruled the Earth and Rulers ruled the people.
What are Gods.
400
The most famous work of literature to come out of Mesopotamia
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
The first code of laws created.
What is the Code of Hammurabi.
500
What does the name, "Mesopotamia" mean?
What is "the land between the rivers"
500
Mesopotamian gods and beliefs were related to _______
What is nature and/daily life.
500
Sumer was divided into smaller districts called ________.
What are City States?
500
2 questions: The Mesopotamian number system was based on ____. Used for measuring days in a year, still used today.
What is 60? What is the calendar?
500
King Nebuchadnezzar built this for his wife and it was known as one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?