The reason people settled into the Fertile Crescent.
What is fertile land (good soil and water)?
100
This first of the Sumerians helps things move.
What is a wheel?
100
The Sumerians used this from the river to make this building material (2 parts)
What is mud or clay and bricks?
100
The Mesopotamian word for king.
What is ensi?
200
When these mountains' snows to the east of Sumer melted, it brought water to their crops.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
200
One of the earliest civilizations (in Title of this game)
What is Sumer?
200
This first of the Sumerians helped them plan when rains and seasons were coming for planting their crops.
What is a calendar?
200
The people of Mesopotamia built these large centralized structures for their gods and goddesses.
Also what kind of structure would we call this___________ ___________________.
What is a ziggurat and a terraced pyramid?
200
Gods and goddesses were housed here.
What is the ziggurat?
300
The body of water the Tigris and Euphrates empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
The year in which Sumer was thought to have developed as a civilization.
What is 3500 BCE?
300
This first, is the combination of tin and copper.
What is bronze?
300
The Sumerians built these to divert water to their crops and control flooding.
What are levees?
300
Two story homes were for whom and where were they?
What is the wealthy and beside the ziggurat?
400
The closest desert to Sumer, and the direction in which it is found.
What is the Arabian Desert and south/west?
400
What people must have first for a civilization to develop.
What is a surplus of food?
400
1.) This first of the Sumerians, began as a way to keep records.
2.) The name of the people who did it
3.) What they did this on
4.) What they used to do this with
What is cuneiform, a scribe, a clay tablet, and a stylus?
400
This was the style of home for the wealthy and where they would be living.
What are two-story homes and beside the ziggurat?
400
The boats of the Mesopotamians were called this.
What is gufa?
500
This body of water is found west of Mesopotamia and these mountains were to the north.
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Taurus Mountains?
500
What people can do once they have enough food, and the second important "must have" for a civilization to develop.
What is division of labor?
500
This first controls chaos in a civilization. Also, this is the king who gathered all 282 of them.
What are laws? and Who was Hammurabi (his Code)?
500
This is a first that is really important that the people of Mesopotamia built thousands of years before Middle Ages Europe.
What is a plumbing system or sewage system?
500
This is the type of religion practiced by the Mesopotamians (and most of the civilizations we will study this year) and the name of an image worshipped as a god (the little scribe in the movie was happy her uncle brought this back for her).