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Geography
Sumer
Achievements
Other Peoples
Vocabulary
100
This name means between the two rivers
What is Mesopotamia
100
Sumer was this political unit
What is a city-state
100
This invention made farming easier
What is the plow
100
The Hittites and Assyrians used these type of weapons to defeat Sumer
What are iron weapons and chariots
100
A writer
What is a scribe
200
This is a large arc of good farmland
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Most Sumerians did this occupation
What are farmers
200
Sumerian written language was originally this which involved pictures
What is pictographs
200
This written laws from Babylon have his name
What is Hammurabi's Code
200
A ranking of society by class/occupation
What is social hierarchy
300
This system brings water to land with no water
What is irrigation?
300
This person was important because they were believed to communicate with the gods
What are priests
300
This allowed the Sumerians to create pottery
What is the potters wheel?
300
He was a Chaldean king
Who is Nebuchadnezer
300
Countryside
What is rural
400
These the two rivers that border Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
400
These buildings were built to show respect to the gods
What are ziggurats
400
Sumerian poets created this type of long story
What is an epic
400
They defeated the Hittites by killing their king
What is Kassites
400
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism
500
Name one of the modern day countries where Mesopotamia is located
What are Iraq and Syria
500
He and his army defeated and controlled Sumer until his death
Who is Sargon
500
This is the worlds first written language
What is cuneiform
500
They became powerful by trading cedar wood
Who are the Pheonicians
500
These human made waterways were part of this system. You need to answer both
What are canals and irrigation