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Inventions
Mesopotamia
Persia
Spreading Culture
Advantages
100
This item was probably the greatest invention of all time.
What is the wheel?
100
The Persian people used star arrangements to separate the year into 12 sections.
What is the Zodiac?
100
This is a large area of land that is a combination of territories taken by a strong ruler to make his or her territory bigger.
What is empire?
100
The Persians first started this fear, which some people still have today.
What is the number thirteen.
100
Europeans had an advantage over most other cultures because they had this type of weapon.
What is guns.
200
This scientist invented the light bulb.
What is Thomas Edison?
200
The Mesopotamian people used clay to spread the news in this way.
What is writing?
200
A system for sending messages over long distances
What is a postal system?
200
When Cyrus the Great invaded Mesopotamia he freed the Jews who were in this type of bondage.
What is slavery.
200
Cyrus the Great was born in this modern day country.
What is Iran?
300
The Chinese invented this type of eating utensil.
What is chopsticks?
300
Civilization first started near these two rivers located in Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
300
The Persians built a way to travel quickly over their large empire.
What is a super highway?
300
When one army moves into another territory without permission.
What is invasion?
300
These tiny invaders often killed native people before they ever even met the human invaders.
What is germs.
400
This item was used to light homes before the invention of the light bulb.
What is the lantern?
400
The Perian people were the first to invent this system of dividing the year into 12 sections.
What is the calendar.
400
The Persians invented this way to make buying and selling things between different towns easier.
What is standardized measurements?
400
People in Mesopotamia had to do this activity when it stopped raining for many years in a row.
What is migration?
400
This mixture of iron and other metals led to factories and the growth of cities.
What is steel?
500
An accident in a petri dish led to this medical discovery that has saved millions of lives.
What is penicillin?
500
The Persian created this way to keep track of daily events.
What is time.
500
Cyrus allowed the people he invaded to keep their religion and culture because he thought these were important.
What is human rights?
500
This activity became wide-spread as making specialized crafts led to more buying and selling.
What is trade?
500
Used for working, these made the lives of the Persian people easier but eventually led to the spread of disease and death.
What is domesticated animals?