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Geography
The Rise of Sumer
Sumerian Achievements
Later People of Fertile Crescent
Miscellaneous
100
This name means "between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
100
A political unit that consists of a city and all the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
100
The world's first writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
100
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
City-states built these to protect themselves from rivals.
What are walls?
200
A large arc of fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Farming villages led to city-states which led to ...
What is civilization?
200
A writer who was hired to keep track of items people traded.
What is a scribe?
200
This was the capital of Sumer.
What is Ur?
200
A merchant makes money by selling products created from hand by ...
What is artisan?
300
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that make land ideal for farming.
What is silt?
300
There were many different social levels and jobs.
What is social structure?
300
A pyramid shaped temple that rose above each city.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Large territory under one leader.
What is empire?
300
A wheeled horse drawn cart.
What is chariot?
400
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
400
A set of beliefs and forms of worship.
What is religion?
400
Perhaps Sumerians' most important technical advance.
What is the wheel?
400
Necessary to direct people's behavior and make life orderly.
What is government?
400
Pulled by oxen and broke through the hard clay soil to prepare for planting.
What is plow?
500
An arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?
500
The plow is an example of ...
What is technology?
500
The arts were created to please both people and the ...
What is the gods?
500
The city-state of Sumer was located at this end of Messy Potatoes.
What is the -South-Eastern end?
500
These modern countries sit on the same location as Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon?