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100
This is the reason people settled in southern Mesopotamia. Esto es porque la gente vive en
What is a fresh water source? Que es agua?
100
This is not a part of religion in Sumerian civilization.
What is the worship of a single God?
100
This greatly influenced the success of farming.
What are irrigation systems?
100
Nebuchadnezzar II did this after conquering the Assyrian empire.
What is order massive building projects?
100
This is the principle difference between Assyrian and Babylonian cultures.
What is that the Assyrians placed a higher value on war and conquest?
200
One of the first civilizations settled on this area.
What is a land between two rivers?
200
Sumerian cities developed into these self-governing regions that included a city and its surrounding area,
What are city-states?
200
This was developed by the people of Mesopotamia to keep track of business dealings.
What is a system of writing?
200
He ruled the kingdom of Babylonia and created a code of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Babylon's society under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II can be described as this.
What are educated and glorious?
300
These two bodies of water provided fresh water sources for all of the civilizations in the Mesopotamia area.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
Sumerian's artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group.
What is the middle class?
300
This was a pyramid- shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
300
He is the hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds.
Who is Gilgamesh?
300
This group rebelled against the Assyrians.
Who are the Chaldeans?
400
The Fertile Crescent got its name from this.
What are its rich soil and quarter moon-like shape?
400
Sumerians used these to measure the sizes of their fields.
What is geometry?
400
This was an advantage of cuneiform over picture writing.
What is a permanent record?
400
This is why Nebuchadnezzar collected such high taxes and tributes.
What is the need to pay for work being done in Babylon and his wars?
400
This Akkadian ruler conquered all of the city-states in Mesopotamia and formed the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
500
This deposited silt along the land in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the yearly floods?
500
This long-term benefit came from the Sumerian's cuneiform writing.
What is the preservation of literature, medical records and other documents?
500
This was used to build homes, temples, and palaces during the Mesopotamian civilization.
What are mud bricks?
500
The first Sumerian kings were probably these.
What are priests?
500
This is the grandest city built after the Amorites conquered Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?