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Euphrates, Tigris and Bears...oh my!
Writing and All That Jazz
Super Sumerians
Hammurabi and His King Friends
Wheels, Cities, and Sources
100
Farmers changed the land by...
What is building irrigation canals and planting crops?
100
The name of one of the earliest writing systems.
What is Cuneiform?
100
Surrounds the Sumerian city-states to protect them.
What are mud brick walls?
100
Created the first written form of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
How the wheel improved life in Mesopotamia.
What is go farther distances, speed, and heavier loads.
200
What did the rivers provide that was great for farming?
Silt, fertile land
200
The official specialized writers.
Who are scribes?
200
The center of the city-states used for religious purposes.
What is the Ziggurat?
200
Had the most power in the city-state.
Who is the king?
200
I am an actual pillar showing the Code of Hammurabi.
What is a primary source?
300
Mesopotamia means...
What is Land between the Rivers?
300
A person who is trained in a special skill or craft
What is an artisan?
300
The easiest way for Sumerian farmers to transport goods.
What is the sailboat?
300
A society with jobs, technology, and cities.
What is a civilization?
300
I am a textbook written about the ancient Sumerians.
What is a secondary source?
400
Continent where Mesopotamia was located
What is Asia?
400
Keeping extra grain in case there is a drought.
What is surplus?
400
A way the Sumerians used mathematics.
What is to calculate fields for farming?
400
What was the name of Hammurabi's Laws?
What is Code of Hammurabi?
400
A skill in one type of work such as potter or blacksmith.
What is specialization?
500
Modern day country where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq/ Iran?
500
They created problems for people to overcome.
Who were the gods?
500
The ability for Sumerian farmers to produce surplus goods which led to a civilization...
What is led to specialized workers?
500
Give an example of one of his laws.
What is an eye for an eye!
500
Where there is a city and it's nearby farmlands.
What is a city-state?