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Mesopotamia
City-states
Religion
Rights of Women and Children
Inventions
100
Mesopotamia means this.
What is "land between rivers?"
100
The Sumerian city-states had these surrounding them.
What are smaller villages?
100
This was the main building in each Sumerian city.
What is a temple?
100
Women had these kind of rights in Sumer.
What are legal rights?
100
Sumerians invented this type of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
These are the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
The larger cities had more than 20,000 of these.
What are people?
200
This was a pyramid-shaped temple with four sides.
What is a ziggurat?
200
Women could own and run their own these?
What are properties and businesses?
200
The Sumerians used this sharp-pointed tool to write on the clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
300
This is another name for Mesopotamia.
What is the "Fertile Crescent?"
300
The Sumerians used these to irrigate the farmlands.
What are canals?
300
This was their way of offering a gift to a god. Sometimes, they used animals.
What is a sacrifice?
300
If children disobeyed, their parents could do this.
What is sell their kids into slavery?
300
They invented writing as a way to do this.
What is keep records?
400
This sea lies to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
Sumerians chose their own leaders. But eventually, these people became the leaders.
Who are the military leaders?
400
These people were religious leaders who made sure the workers built the temple correctly.
Who are priests?
400
Teachers were allowed to do this when students made mistakes.
What is beat them?
400
Sumerians built these smooth stairways.
What are ramps?
500
Mesopotamia lies in what modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
500
Sumerians used bricks to build these types of houses.
What are one-story houses?
500
The Sumerians believed the gods had these types of feelings.
What are human feelings?
500
These people determined who the children would marry.
Who are the parents?
500
The Sumerians were the first to put these on carts.
What are wheels?