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Mesopotamia Games

Test your knowlegde of the geography of Mesopotamia; Sumer; Assyria; and Babylonia.

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SumerThe first civilization in Mesopotamia.
WheelOne of the Sumerians greatest inventions.
ZigguratsHuge buildings where the Sumerians met and worshipped.
CunniformWriting invented by the Sumerians.
SumeriansThey were the first civilizations to go to schools.
ScribeThis is a person who wrote for someone who didn't know how.
HammurabiThe King of Babylonia who wrote "tough" laws.
BabyloniaThe first civilization to have written laws.
BabyloniansThey had astronomers who studied the stars.
AssyriansThey were skilled fighters.
AssyriansThey were good at making weapons.
AssyriaThe first civilization to build a library.
AssyriaThe biggest civilization in Mesopotamia.
AssyriansThey make wall carvings to show their culture and history.
Tigris RiverOne of the rivers in Mesopotamia.
Euphrates RiverOne of the rivers in Mesopotamia.
HammurabiHe create the first written laws.
HammurabiHis laws were based on "an eye for an eye."
SargonHe was a harsh ruler who unified the city-states in Mesopotamia.
StylusScribes wrote with this.
ClayScribes wrote on this.
ScribesThese were the people who learned how to write.
IraqThis is the country in Mesopotamia today.
Sun-Dried BricksWhat most buildings were made of in Mesopotamia.
PolytheismThe belief in more than one god.
PriestThis was the most powerful position in Sumer.
NomadsPeople who travel from place to place with no real home.
ArtisanA person who made goods in Sumer.


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