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100
rich soil, good for planting
What is fertile?
100
the system which takes water from rivers through canals to farms
What is irrigation?
100
large, stepped building in a city-state
What is a ziggurat?
100
describe the climate in Mesopotamia
What is hot and dry?
200
A professional writer in ancient Mesopotamia
What is a scribe?
200
a metal made from copper and tin
What is bronze?
200
The names of the two rivers that help form the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
the top part of a ziggurat
What is the temple?
200
the children that learned to read and write
What is the rich children?
300
a shape like a moon or a banana
What is crescent?
300
Sumerians used this round thing on carts
What is the wheel?
300
"The Land Between Two Rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
300
belief in more than one god or goddesses
What is polytheism?
300
the reasons that Mesopotamia was a good place to live
What is that it had fertile soil, and it had the two rivers to use to travel and trade
400
when water overflows and goes over the land (inundaci?ón)
What is a flood?
400
Sumerian way of writing
What is cuneiform?
400
The area in southern Mesopotamia ...
What is Sumer?
400
stories that explain beliefs or things in nature
What is a myth?
400
the reason there were walls around the city-states
What is "for protection"?
500
place in Sumer that had its own government, laws, and gods
What is a city-state?
500
the number the Sumerians used to measure time
What is 60?
500
A city-state in Sumer
What is Ur?
500
things used as offerings in the temples to the gods (at least 2 things)
What is jewelry, food, music, incense?
500
a country today located in the area of the Fertile Crescent
What is Iran or Iraq or Syria or part of Turkey