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Mixed Bag
100
I am the belief in many gods.
Who is polytheism?
100
The world’s first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
100

Mesopotamia was located in the modern day country of __?

What is Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan?

100
The invention of this was the first that allowed people to record stories.
What is writing?
200
This was the only group allowed to go to school.
Who were the Upper Class Boys?
200

The 3 kinds of people located at the top of the class structure.

What are kings/queens, priests, and warriors?

200
The name of the two rivers that run through ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?
200

A writing system developed by the Sumerians that used wedge shaped marks

What is cuneiform?

300

These people taught the young girls how to manage the households.

Who are mothers/women?

300

The people located in middle class.

Who are merchants, fisherman, artisans, and farmers?

300
I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300

How many characters are in cuneiform?

What is 500?

400
The only person who could enter the temple.
Who is the priest?
400

People who are taken from their civilizations after battle.

Who are prisoners of war, or the enslaved?

400

The Sumerians were the first to use me; I helped them develop the cart and wooden plow.

What is the wheel?

400

The Sumerians created a place-value system based on which number?

What is 60?

500

The major event that shifted from hunting and gathering to farming, allowing civilizations to arise in Mesopotamia c. 7000 BC.

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

500

People who kept track of every day life in Mesopotamia.

Who are Scribes?

500
The shape that Mesopotamia is often referred to because of the shape of the area.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500

The area where the most valuable people and buildings in each city-state were placed.

What is the center of the city-state?