Mesopotamia

A

100

The land that curves from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean coast, reaching the northern section of the Nile River area is:

What is the Fertile Crescent?

200

This was the first major collection of written laws in history.

What is The Code of Hammurabi?

300

This is the reason Mesopotamia was such a good area for growing crops:

What is the rivers flooded and deposited rich soil?

400

This is what the religious beliefs of the Mesopotamians were considered:

What is polytheistic?

500

These were built as temples to honor the gods and goddesses:

What are ziggurats?

B

100

The invention of this helped farmers plan their crops to avoid floods, which allowed them to grow more food and feed more people in the cities

What is the calendar?

200

This is the best piece of evidence that proves people in Mesopotamia were not all treated equally

What is slavery existed?

300

This is the reason that the Assyrian Empire fell:

What is because the empire became too large for the military to protect?

400

This invention helped farmers plant faster and helped them plant larger areas to grow a surplus of grain for trading to sell:

What is the metal plow?

500

The Code of Hammurabi helped transform society because it was the first set of laws that were written to:

What is include women?

C

100

The invention of this helped resolve conflicts over ownership of land and other items because citizens were now able to have a record of purchase:

What is cuneiform?

200

This is the reasons that people originally settled in Mesopotamia:

What is the rivers made life easier for farming and allowed for trading?

300

If the people of Sumer built levees to control their water supply, this is the theme of geography is represented.

What is Human Environment Interaction?

400

This is the human characteristic that made Mesopotamia unique:

What is canals were built and irrigation helped with water control and distribution?

500

This is how scarcity impacted Mesopotamia’s economic system:

What is it limited resources so the people had to trade and barter for goods?

D

100

This is the most likely way people of Mesopotamia acquired cedar due to the geography of the area:

What is by trading for it?

200

This is the name of the oldest story written in Akkadian and translated in 1872 by George Smith?

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

300

This is the oldest civilization that started in Mesopotamia:

What is the Sumerians?

400

This is the modern day country that now lies where Mesopotamia was located:

What is Iraq?

500

This is how many minutes people of Mesopotamia said that an hour had:

What is 60 minutes?