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Name the two rivers in through which Mesopotamia flowed
What is the Euphrates River and the Tigris River?
100
What was Hammurabi's greatest achievement?
What is code of laws?
100
Name an important achievement of the Akkadian empire
What is they were the first empire?
100
Which group of people specialized in writing?
What is scribes?
100
Name the river that flows through ancient Egypt
What is the Nile River
200
Where is present day Mesopotamia?
Where is Iraq?
200
Which empire invented the aqueducts?
Who is the Assyrian empire?
200
Which empire would spread fear and cruelty in intimidate their people?
What is the Assyrian empire?
200
Name seven characteristics of civilization
What is arts, technology, writing, government, religion, food supply, social structure
200
Who was at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid?
Who are pharaohs
300
How did the Mesopotamians control the water supply?
What is building irrigation systems?
300
How did Nebuchadrezzar protect the Neo-Babylonians?
What is building an inner wall and an outer wall to the city?
300
Who was the king of the Neo-Babylonians?
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
300
Give an example of an artisan
What is a metalworker?
300
What is the difference between monotheism and polytheism?
What is the belief in one god and the belief in many gods?
400
Sumer was the first city-states. What is a city-state?
What is an small, independent country with its own laws and government?
400
Name the order in which the empires of Mesopotamia existed?
What is the Akkadians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Neo-Babylonians?
400
Choose a Mesopotamian empire. Name one similarity and one difference between it and the United States.
What is answers will vary. Teacher choice
400
Where did Sumerians practice there religious beliefs?
What is a ziggurat?
400
Where did Judaism originate from?
What is Mesopotamia and northeast Egypt?
500
What is another name for Mesopotamia?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
What other achievement, besides the code of laws, helped the Babylonian economy?
What is trade?
500
What did Hammurabi allow women and slave to do during his rule?
What is allowing them to own land?
500
What is culture?
What is a characteristic of civilization that include behaviors and beliefs of a society or a group of people.
500
What is Judaism's most sacred text?
What is the Torah?