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Mesopotamia
Civilization
100
List one characteristic of advanced cities for Sumerian
What is ziggurat or walls around the city
100
A temple in the center of a Sumerian City.
What is a Ziggurat?
100
Another name for a writer.
What is a scribe?
100
The name of the first civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumeria?
100
What three continents is Mesopotamia at the crossroads of?
What is Africa, Asia , Europe
200
One characteristic for specialization of workers
What is kings, priests, scribes, farmers
200
Picture symbols
What are pictographs?
200
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans?
What is domestication?
200
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is land between the rivers.
200
Who was the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer.
300
One characteristic of complex institutions for Sumeria?
What is the code of Hammurabi? Ziggurats were holy temples
300
Ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a Monarch?
300
Division of society by rank or class?
What is social hierarchy?
300
Mesopotamia is at the crossroads of what three continents?
What is Africa, Europe, Asia
300
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
What is the first written laws, in which not everyone was treated equally.
400
One characteristic for record keeping in Sumeria?
What is cuneiform Tax collection
400
Long poems that tell stories of heroes
What are epics?
400
mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
What is a silt?
400
What modern day country is Mesopotamia located in?
Iraq
400
Two names for Mesopotamia?
Fertile Crescent Cradle of civilization
500
One characteristic for advanced technology?
What is plow, wheel, bronze.
500
More than needed
What is surplus?
500
Type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is Division of labor?
500
What two rivers are in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
500
List the three civilizations in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer, Babylon, Assyria,