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Agriculture
100
Modern country location of Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
100
King responsible for first written law
What is Hammurabi?
100
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
100
This math concept helped the Mesopotamian's keep track of seconds in the hour, hours in the day, and days in their 360 day year.
What is the base 60 number system?
100
This was invented to help get the fields ready for planting.
What is the plow?
200
Greek word for "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
200
This king was made famous through an epic poem written about his life.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
Term that refers to the ability to tame plants and animals.
What is Domestication?
200
These helped to control the water from the rivers to irrigate crops.
What are canals and ditches?
300
Name the 2 major rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
Citizens pay these to the government in return for protection and services that make the lives of the people better.
What are taxes.
300
Built as temples to worship the gods
What are ziggurats?
300
This invention helped the people move their goods to market.
What is the wheel?
300
People with no single, settled homeland.
What are nomads?
400
The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as this.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
400
A professional writer in the ancient world.
What is a scribe?
400
He was initially very upset because he discovered that he was a mortal.
Gilgamesh?
400
This is the name for the wedge shaped writing of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
400
Agriculture allowed people to gather and live permanently causing this first to develop.
What is civilization?
500
Body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates both flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf
500
The term used to describe a city with an independent government.
What is a city-state?
500
Term that refers to the scattering of the Jewish people.
Diaspora
500
A worker skilled in making something like jewelry or pots
What is an artisan?
500
Term that refers to extra goods that can be bought and sold.
What is surplus?