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Ancient Sumer
Other People of Mesopotamia
Geography
Babylon and Phoenicia
Odds and Ends
100
This is the meaning of the name, "Mesopotamia"
What is "land between the rivers"?
100
The creation of this let Sargon conquer much land to become the world's first emperor.
What is a standing, or permanent, army?
100
This set of latitudes receives the most direct rays of the sun, making it the warmest area of the earth.
What is the low latitudes?
100
He created the first written code of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
Sumerians were able to measure time by using this.
What is a water clock?
200
These are the two rivers that make up Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
Most wars in the region of Mesopotamia were fought for this...
What is control of farmland?
200
Most of the people in the world live in this area of latitude lines.
What is the Middle Latitudes?
200
This is the main thing that influenced the concept of "eye for eye" when punishing crimes under Hammurabi's Code.
What is a person's social class?
200
The letters "AD" on a timeline stand for this...
What is "In the Year of Our Lord" or "Anno Domini"?
300
Most people in ancient Sumer did this as their job.
What is farming?
300
This landform stopped Sargon from increasing his empire to the south.
What is the Syrian Desert?
300
A farmer tilling soil or a miner digging into the earth would be examples of this theme of geography.
What is Human/Environmental Interaction?
300
The Phoenicians are best known for this color which today is still associated with royalty.
What is purple?
300
The spreading of baseball from America to Latin America and Japan is an example of ...
What is cultural diffusion?
400
The Tigris and the Euphrates provided this rich, fertile soil used by people in the Fertile Crescent for farming.
What is silt?
400
People in Mesopotamia usually founded, or began, cities near this....
What is a source of water?
400
This area of the earth receives the least direct sunlight, making it the coldest areas of the earth.
What are the High Latitudes?
400
The Phoenicians invention of this made the practice of writing much easier than the Sumerian way of writing with pictures.
What is an alphabet?
400
This ancient people discovered the use of wheels.
Who are the Sumerians?
500
Gilgamesh was a king of this Sumerian city-state.
What is Uruk?
500
He created the world's first empire by using a permanent army.
Who is Sargon?
500
A area, having unique physical and cultural characteristics, like Mesopotamia, would be an example of this theme of geography.
What is region?
500
This tree was important in the trade that the Phoenicians had with the people around the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the cedar tree?
500
This is college football's winningest program, with 921 wins.
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