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Physical Features
Human Features
Geography
Advancements
Vocabulary
100
The temperature and precipitation of a place.
What is climate?
100
Farmer, butcher, teacher, scribe
What are jobs and roles?
100
Nickname of the Fertile Crescent
What is the land between two rivers?
100
The advancements that led the people of Mesopotamia to become sedentary and develop an agricultural society.
What is the domestication of plants and animals.
100
A temple to the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The lay of the land, mountains, valleys, etc.
What is topgraphy?
200
cuneiform writing
What is communication?
200
The two rivers that the Fertile Crescent lies between.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
Controlled the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is irrigation?
200
Consisting of a city and the countryside around it.
What is a city state?
300
Rivers, streams, lakes, seas, oceans
What are bodies of water?
300
Kings, emperor, laws
What is government?
300
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
300
Communication of record keeping and laws.
What is cuneiform writing?
300
A land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
What is an empire?
400
Sheep, donkeys, horses, fig trees, shrubs, flowers.
What are animals and vegetation.
400
Polytheism, ziggurats
What is religion?
400
The larger bodies of water that the Fertile Crescent borders.
What are the Persian Gulf and the Mediteranean Sea?
400
The study of the area of a circle and rectangle.
What is Geometry?
400
More than what is needed
What is a surplus?
500
Diamonds, iron, copper, lapis lazuli
What are mineral resources?
500
Irrigation, the wheel, the sail, the calendar
What is technology?
500
The modern day country located in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Iraq?
500
The invention of the wheel led the Sumerians to develop this artistic tool.
What is the potter's wheel?
500
An arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?