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100
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What are the two major rivers in Mesopotamia?
100
3,000 B.C.
What is the beginning of the Sumerian civilization?
100
a mound made up of layered dirt and the remains of earlier buildings and structures.
What is a tell?
100
this person excavated Ur.
What is Sir Leonard Woolley?
100
this farming method allowed Sumerians to water and grow crops.
What is irrigation?
200
this terms means "land between the rivers"
What is "Mesopotamia"?
200
A strip of land, shaped like a crescent, from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea that was fertile soil for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
this person recorded information in writing
What is a scribe?
200
this descendent of Noah settled in Mesopotamia
What is Shem?
200
these two tools helped create a surplus.
What is irrigation and the plow?
300
This term means that Mesopotamia was "man's first home"
What is the "cradle of civilization"?
300
this terms means "more than enough"
What is a surplus?
300
this tool was used to write on a transaction
What is a cylinder seal?
300
this person was believed to choose the king.
What is a god?
300
this was an impressive pyramid-like structure in Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
400
Mesopotamia was located between these two large bodies of water.
What is the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
400
this terms means the different levels of a culture into which people are divided
What is Social Classes?
400
a skilled craftsman who turned raw materials into finished goods
What is an artisan?
400
this person was famous for their "Code of Laws"
What is Hammurabi?
400
wedge-shaped writing invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
500
this was a powerful city-state during the time of Abraham.
What is Ur?
500
when people worshiped many gods, they really rejected this.
What is God?
500
the worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
500
this king was the famous ruler of the Amorite civilization.
What is Hammurabi?
500
developed to help tell time
What is a 12-month calendar?