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Geographical Features
Agriculture
First Civilization
Early Inventions
Potpouri
100
The two rivers that are located in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
100
The fine soil deposited in the floodplain that made Mesopotamia a good area for farming.
What is silt?
100
The first civilization that rose about 3300 B.C.
What is Sumer?
100
Historians believe Sumerians were the first to develop this, which was a tool invented to help farmers.
What is the plow?
100
A special type of wheel that helped create important storage containers for surplus grain.
What is a potter's wheel?
200
The gulf that Mesopotamia is next to.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
The period when not enough rain and snow fall.
What is a drought?
200
Advanced civilizations had specialized workers. This is one example.
What is artisan, priest, or king?
200
This invention was first used on wagons to transport goods.
What is the wheel?
200
Sumer was divided into social classes, with these people in the lowest class.
What are slaves?
300
The type of climate that existed in Mesopotamia.
What is semiarid?
300
Mesopotamians used this to carry water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
300
A community that included the city and its nearby farmland.
What is a city-state?
300
Sumerians were among the first people to use this mixture of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
300
Sumerians believed in many gods, which is called this.
What is polytheism?
400
Mesopotamia was easy to invade because it lacked these.
What are mountains?
400
Mesopotamians were able to trade this in order to get other supplies they needed.
What is surplus grain or surplus?
400
The largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The creation of written language began with this picture writing.
What are pictographs?
400
Early scribes used this to make marks in clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
500
The flat land near a river.
What is a floodplain?
500
Irrigation is a system that controls the flow of water with these two things.
What are canals and gates?
500
These leaders started out protecting cities from attack and then became full-time rulers.
What are kings?
500
The writing called cuneiform contained about this many characters.
What is 600?
500
Religion and government are examples of this. A group of people with a specific purpose.
What is an institution?