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Mesopotamian inventions
Religion
Occupations
Empires
Irrigation and Agriculture
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The first form of writing invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
100
A greatly respected person permitted to the ziggurats who served as a medium between the gods and the people.
What is a priest?
100
A person, often captured during war, and forced to work for someone for free.
What is a slave?
100
The first empire in the world.
What is Akkadian empire?
100
The act of supplying water to a certain area making farming more productive.
What is irrigation?
200
A replacement for the digging stick, often pulled by an animal such as an oxen.
What is a plow?
200
The people who believed that the gods could control the health weather, wealth, and health of all people.
Who are the Sumerians?
200
A person who connected different lands by exchanging goods which was at the time a very lucrative job.
What is a trader/merchant?
200
A land with different territories and people under a single rule.
What is an empire?
200
A man made water way used to irrigate land.
What is a canal?
300
A relatively late invention used most specifically as a part of various modes of transportation.
What is the wheel?
300
The god of the earth.
Who is Ninhursag?
300
A person who tended to crops and is ranked in the class just above slaves.
What is a farmer?
300
The one time ruler of Mesopotamia who established a set of important rules.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
An excessive supply of food or goods?
What is surplus?
400
A type of boat that did not have to be rowed in order to move, often used in the art of fishing.
What is a sailboat?
400
One of the only religions practiced in Mesopotamia for thousands of years.
What is polytheism?
400
An educated person who recorded many important subjects and events.
What is a scribe?
400
The ruler of the Persian empire in 550 BC.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
400
A mixture of rich soil and little rocks brought by the floods of the Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is silt?
500
The mathematical system used in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is base 60?
500
A pyramid shaped temple dedicated to a certain god.
What is a Ziggurat?
500
A person who made valuable accessories, worm by both men and women.
What is a jeweler?
500
The empire that was take over by the Babylonians in 1781 BC.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
500
The arrangement in which people specialized in particular tasks or jobs.
What is the division of labor?