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Geography
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Ms. Howell and Mrs. White Special
100
Name for area that has rich soil and stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
What is "the Fertile Crescent"
100
Development that allowed civilization to begin (hint: it gave a surplus of food)
What is agriculture
100
Creators of the earliest written language and the wheel
Who are the Sumerians
100
True of False? The Mesopotamians created a calendar system
What is True
100
Modern day country within Mesopotamia
What is Iraq
200
Greek for "land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
200
worship more than one god
what is polytheism
200
Who could read and write
What is a scribe
200
Why did city-states fight each other
What is resources, power, and control of land
200
Tools used in writing
what is a clay table and a stylus
300
Two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
300
a city and the surrounding areas around it
What is a city-state?
300
Author of the earliest written laws
Who is Hammurabi
300
producing more than enough goods
what is a surplus
300
Hammurabi's infamous philosophy on punishment
What is "an eye for an eye"
400
Two types of natural barriers in Mesopotamia
What are rivers and deserts
400
A temple
What is a ziggurat?
400
How Mesopotamians solved the problems of watering crops
What is irrigation
400
Name of writing system
What is Cuneiform?
400
At the top of the social pyramid
who are kings and priests
500
Reason why agriculture is possible in this region
What is flooding
500
Rich soil great for farming
What is silt
500
The first ruler to have an empire
Who is Sargon
500
What types of resources were traded in Mesopotamia (name 3)
What is gold, silver, copper, what, barley, stone
500
This was built for a king's wife to feel more at home
What is The Hanging Gardens of Babylon