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Geography
Inventions
Government & Trade
Warfare
Religion
100
This crescent shaped area in the Middle East is the location of Mesopotamia.
What is Fertile Crescent?
100
These triangular shaped symbols were the first system of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
100
This word means trading without the use of money.
What is barter?
100
This is what is created when multiple cities or lands are taken over by one force.
What is an empire?
100
This is a pyramid shaped temple used by the Mesopotamians.
What is a ziggurat?
200
These two rivers surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
This Sumerian invention made travel easier.
What is the wheel?
200
This was the first written set of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
These are soldiers on horseback.
What is a cavalry?
200
This is the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
The Phoenicians did this to trade because they lived off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is sailed/navigated?
300
This invention made writing easier; it was invented by the Phoenicians.
What is the alphabet?
300
This means that everyone must obey the law.
What is rule of law?
300
This is what it's called when two cities or countries come together to achieve a common goal.
What is an ally?
300
This is the official religion of the Persian empire.
What is zoroastrianism?
400
Due to their dry land, the Sumerians had to do this to get water to their crops.
What is irrigate?
400
The Sumerians created these to divide time into 60 minutes.
What are sundials/clocks?
400
This is another word for money; it was mostly used by the Persians.
What is currency?
400
This civilization used iron weapons and cavalries.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
The gods controlled everything in this society.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Due to their location by the mountains and the sea, the Phoenicians didn't have much of this.
What is farmland?
500
This Sumerian invention made it easier for people to keep track of the number of goods they had.
What is math?
500
This is an area that is ruled by a distant land.
What is a colony?
500
This is how King Sargon took over the Sumerians.
What is placing Akkadians in charge/changing the language?
500
This is the major difference between Zoroastrianism and Mesopotamian religion.
What is one supreme god?