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Potpourri
100
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia
100
Farmers used this to water their crops.
What was irrigation?
100
Historians believe this was the first advanced civilization.
What was Sumer?
100
Sumerians invented this writing system that used wedge shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
100
Early leaders in Mesopotamia.
Who were priests?
200
The two rivers that border Mesopotamia.
What are The Tigris and The Euphrates?
200
Because they had this, farmers were able to trade for other things.
What is a surplus?
200
Priests, kings, and artisans were all this type of worker, which was a basic trait of an advanced civilization.
What is specialized workers?
200
Sumerian's number system was based on this number.
What is 60?
200
This temple was also the city center.
What is the ziggurat?
300
The gulf that the rivers of Mesopotamia flow into.
What is The Persian Gulf?
300
Floods deposited this, which made the soil good for farming.
What is silt?
300
Record keeping, a basic trait of civilization, was first demonstrated in Sumer with this.
What were pictographs?
300
Bronze, a desirable material to use for making tools, was a mixture of these two things.
What are copper and tin?
300
This is where Sumerians believed their souls went after death.
What is the land of no return?
400
The flat land by a river.
What is a floodplain?
400
The invention of this made it easier for farmers to break up hard soil.
What is the plow?
400
The temple, the army, and schools are example of this, another basic trait of civilization.
What are complex institutions?
400
Professional record keepers.
What are scribes?
400
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
500
The type of climate in Mesopotamia with under 10 inches of rain and hot summers.
What is semiarid?
500
Sumerians first created this for making pottery, but it was also used to transport goods.
What is the wheel?
500
A community that included a city and its nearby farmlands.
What is a city-state?
500
Sumerians use this to help with measuring land boundaries, making bricks, and building ramps.
What is geometry?
500
Ur was the hometown of this important religious figure.
Who was Abraham?