1st Semester Final

Front

The Sumerians invented a form of writing called ____________.

Back

Cuneiform

Front

The plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called _____________.

Back

Mesopotamia

Front

The Sumerians created an heroic poem called __________.

Back

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Front

Who formed a code of laws that later influenced the laws of the Greeks and Romans?

Back

Hammurabi

Front

A complex society that has cities, governments, art, religion, and writing.

Back

civilization

Front

When you dig a ditch in the ground to bring water from a river to another place.

Back

irrigation

Front

Religious temples that look like pyramids but the sides look like stair steps.

Back

ziggurat

Front

These were people who learned how to write and got jobs keeping records.

Back

scribes

Front

When it flooded, what was left behind?

Back

silt

Front

Mesopotamians invented the _______________

Back

wheel