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It's On The Land
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Continent Check
The Unexplained
Sumerian Inventions
100
It is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
100
A wall that keeps a river within its banks.
What is a levee?
100
The continent where you'd find Mesopotamia.
What is Asia?
100
A temple shaped like a flattened pyramid and made of mud-brick.
What is a ziggurat?
100
A method of scratching pictures onto wet clay using a reed pen.
What is cuneiform?
200
Loose soil carried by water.
What is silt?
200
A group of lands and people ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
200
You'd find the Blombos cave on this continent.
What is Africa?
200
A female god.
What is a goddess?
200
He created the first empire in history.
Who was Sargon
300
A system of canals to bring water to crops and fields.
What is irrigation?
300
An official writer.
What is a scribe?
300
Lascaux caves of France can be found on this continent.
What is Europe?
300
The center of Sumerian life.
What is religion?
300
It allowed people and goods to travel longer distances more quickly and gave the army an advantage.
What is the wheel?
400
Long periods without rain.
What are droughts?
400
One of the earliest writing systems in the world.
What is cuneiform?
400
The Mississippi river is found on this continent.
What is North America?
400
A Sumerian hero who tried to find out how humans could live forever.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
This four-wheeled object increased trade throughout Mesopotamia and beyond.
What is a cart?
500
Rivers that flow into the Persian Gulf?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
500
A belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
500
Kangaroos are native to this continent.
What is Australia?
500
The most famous goddess of love and war.
Who is Ishtar?
500
A long narrative poem that tells the deeds of aegendary heros.
What is an epic?