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Agriculture
100
Greek word for "land between two rivers."
Mesopotamia
100
King responsible for first written law
Hammurabi
100
What is polytheism?
belief in many gods
100
First empire in Mesopotamia?
Sumerians
100
What is agriculture?
The science of growing crops and raising livestock
200
Name 2 modern countries that Mesopotamia is located in today.
Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran
200
Number of laws Hammurabi wrote
282 laws
200
What is monotheism?
belief in one god
200
Sumerians invented cuneiform. What does cuneiform mean?
wedge-shaped
200
These two inventions to helped get the fields ready for planting and harvesting.
the plow and sickle
300
Name the 2 major rivers in Mesopotamia *DAILY DOUBLE*- Spell them correctly
Euphrates and Tigris
300
The phrase associated with Hammurabi's code
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
300
How many gods did Sumerians worship?
Seven
300
Name two weapons invented by Assyrians.
Battering ram and siege tower
300
Name 2 bodies of water located close to Mesopotamia.
Black Sea, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf
400
The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as this.
Fertile Crescent
400
A professional writer in the ancient world.
scribe
400
What are ziggurats?
Temples to worship the gods
400
This invention helped the people move their goods to market.
the wheel
400
These helped to control the water from the rivers to irrigate crops.
Levees
500
The continent and section of that continent where you would find Iraq.
Southwest Asia
500
The term used to describe a city, with an independent government, that controls all the land surrounding the city
city-state
500
What is a very famous story from Sumer?
Epic of Gilgamesh
500
This is the name of the currency that was used in Mesopotamia?
shekel
500
What was the most common crop grown in fertile crescent and used to trade?
wheat/grains