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Geography
Key Terms
Key People
Achievements
Invaders
100
A large area of rich, fertile farm land
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Oldest system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
He wrote the first law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The most significant Sumerian invention. We no longer had to drag things, thank goodness!
What is the wheel?
100
This group of people used iron weapons during their invasion.
Who are the Assyrians?
200
Mesopotamia means this
What is the land between the rivers?
200
Temples placed in the center of Sumerian city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The lowest social class in Mesopotamia.
Who were the slaves and/or criminals?
200
Sumerians created a 12 month calendar based on this.
What is the cycle of the moon?
200
Assyrians took Mesopotamia by force and named their capital this.
What is Ninevah?
300
The two rivers Mesopotamia is between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
A city and the land surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
300
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
An invention that was drug my oxen. It made farming so much easier!
What is the plow?
300
The reasons so many invaders wanted to take the Mesopotamia region. (two answers minimum)
What was the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, farming, travel, and trade?
400
The Tigris and the Euphrates rivers provided these three things for a river valley civilization to be successful.
What are farming, travel, and trade?
400
A group of many lands under one ruler is called this.
What is an empire?
400
The only people who were allowed into the temple at the top of the ziggurat.
Who are priests?
400
Thanks to the Sumerian's invention of this, we have 60 minutes in an hour and geometry.
What is the number system based on 60?
400
******Daily Double*********** The Assyrians were known for their warfare. Name at least three warfare innovations that came from the Assyrians.
What was metal weapons, metal wheels for chariots, war camels, battering the rams, tunneling, and burning the places they conquered?
500
Daily Double****************** Mesopotamia was the name of this modern day country and is on this continent.
What is Iraq and the Asian continent?
500
One of the seven wonders of the ancient world that was built for a homesick wife.
What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
500
******Double Jeopardy****** United city-states in Mesopotamia to create the first empire. He was king of the Akkadians.
Who is Sargon I?
500
The Sumerian invention of this made it easier to travel on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the sailboat?
500
In 539 B.C., Babylon and Mesopotamia were conquered by this group of invaders and became a part of their empire.
Who are the Persians?