People Geography Vocabulary This and That Sumerian Achievements Vocabulary This and That 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

Best known for his Code of Law

100 Who is Hammurabi?

He was a legendary hero in Sumerian literature and battled the wild man Enkidu.

200 Who is Gilgamesh?

He built the capital of Akkad and was the first ruler to have a permanent army.

300 Who is Sargon?

He was the most famous Chaldean King & responsible for building the famous “Hanging Gardens”of Babylon

400 Who is Nebuchadnezzar?

The daughter of Sargon, she was the first female writer in history.

500 Who is Enheduana?

The two major rivers in ancient Mesopotamia

What are the Tigris and Euphrates 100 What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

This word means “between the rivers” in Greek

What is Mesopotamia? 200

A large arc of rich farmland from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

What is the Fertile Crescent? 300 What is the Fertile Crescent?

One of the two mountain ranges that border Mesopotamia

What are the Zagros Mtns.? OR What are the Taurus Mtns ? 400 What are the Zagros Mtns.? OR What are the Taurus Mtns ?

City where the “Hanging Gardens” were located

500 What is Babylon?

An invention used by pottery makers to make pots round

What is a Potter’s wheel? 100 What is a Potter’s wheel?

Copper and tin were combined to make stronger weapons out of this

200 What is bronze?

Sumerians invented a math system based on this number

300 What is 60 ?

works of art were used to show ownership These stone works of art were used to show ownership

What are cylinder seals? 400 What are cylinder seals?

Three musical instruments the Sumerians played

What are reed pipes, drums, tambourines, and lyres? 500 What are reed pipes, drums, tambourines, and lyres?

Mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

100 What is silt?

A city and all the countryside around it

200 What is a city-state?

Sumer’s wedge-shaped writing

300 What is cuneiform?

A pyramid shaped temple tower with a shrine on top

400 What is a ziggurat?

The science of building

500 What is architecture?

The two main grains of Mesopotamian farmers

What are wheat and barley? 100 What are wheat and barley?

writer who kept records and copied letters Professional writer who kept records and copied letters

200 What is a scribe?

A way of supplying water to an area of dry land

300 What is irrigation?

A type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job or task

What is division of labor? 400 What is division of labor?

The division of society by rank or class

What is social hierarchy? 500 What is social hierarchy?