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Geography
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Trade & Transportation
Miscelleneous
100
The rich fertile farmland region found in the Middle East
What is the Fertile Crescent
100
The two main rivers that make up Mesopotamia
What is the Euphrates and Tigris?
100
A means of controlling water to use for farming
What is irrigation?
100
An economic system where social relationships such as family is a factor in deciding how goods are produced and work distributed.
What is traditional economy?
100
The large sea WEST of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
A mixture of soil and rock used for farming in Mesopotamia.
What is Silt?
200
The name of the country that is now makes up most of present-day Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
200
Three major crops grown in Mesopotamia.
What is wheat, barley, melons, apples, figs, dates, and grapes?
200
The act of buying and selling goods and services.
What is commerce?
200
It was the first settlement in Mesopotamia.
What is Eridu?
300
An excess of goods produced.
What is surplus?
300
Country where you will find the Zagros Mountain range.
What is Iran?
300
Part of an irrigation system built along a river to prevent water from flooding plains.
What is embankments (levees)?
300
If I trade my goat for a bushel of wheat, I am using which type of system?
Barter system
300
The large country south of the Euphrates River.
What is Saudi Arabia?
400
A large walled central urban area surrounded by farms.
What is city-state?
400
The body of water that the two rivers in Mesopotamia flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
400
The general climate of the Mesopotamian region.
What is hot and dry (arid)?
400
Lightweight boats used for transporting goods down rivers and streams.
What is guffa?
400
The area where most of the early settlements were located.
What is southern region or Southern Mesopotamia or near the Persian Gulf?
500
a system that divides people into different jobs to accomplish varying tasks.
What is Division of Labor?
500
The mountain range north west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Taurus Mountains?
500
An innovative tool created by the Mesopotamians for farming.
What is the metal seeder plow?
500
Items people brought back from other lands.
What is precious metals, jewels, timber (wood)?
500
What does the term Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers.