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Geography of Fertile Crescent
The Rise of Sumer
Sumerian Achievements
Later people of Fertile Crescent
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This is the large arc of farmland located in present day Iraq.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
In Sumer society, these people served as a link between the Sumerians and the gods.
Who are the priests?
100
In order to control the flow of the rivers, these were built.
What are canals?
100
These people were well-known for their use of cedar.
Who are the Phoenicians?
100
This is a wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart.
What is a chariot?
200
This is a way to supply water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
200
This is why Sumer city-states constantly fought each other.
What is they wanted to have enough farmland to grow food?
200
This is a from of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cunneform?
200
This ruler became legendary in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
These are picture symbols used for communication.
What are pictographs?
300
The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on this.
What is the size of its army?
300
His army defeated all the city-states of Sumer and conquered Northern Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon I?
300
The Sumerians developed a math system based on this number.
What is 60?
300
This was spread thoughout the Ancient world by the Phoenician trade routes.
What is the Phonecian alphabet?
300
Social Hiearchy
What is the division of society by rank and class?
400
In present time, this city is now located in near the past location of Babylon.
What is Baghdad, Iraq?
400
This limited the growth of Sargon's Empire.
What is the Syrian Desert did not have enough farmland?
400
This was probably the main reasons that ziggurats were so tall.
What is honor the gods?
400
These two rulers played key roles in the building of Babylon.
Who are Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar?
400
To make styluses the Sumerians used these items.
What are reeds?
500
These two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
This was an important role played by some Sumerian women.
What is they were religious leaders?
500
These two groups used iron weapons and chariots.
Who are the Hittites and Assyrians?
500
This city-state rose to power after the death of Sargon I.
What is Ur?
500
This is how many years ago the hunter-gatherers settled Mesopotamia.
What is 12,000 years ago?