Who’s Who?
Vocabulary Geography This and that! Fill in the Blank
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Countryside areas are
also called _____ areas.
What are rural areas?
City areas can also be
called _________
areas.
What are suburban
areas?
____________ created
the world’ first
advanced society.
Who are the
Sumerians?
The worship of many
gods is called
_______________.
What is polytheism?
The division of society
by rank or class is also
called ____________.
What is social
hierarchy?
Name one of the two
rivers that gave
Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris or
Euphrates Rivers?
Name the other.
What are the Tigris or
Euphrates Rivers?
Mesopotamia is an
area of land between
Asia Minor and the
_____________.
What is the Persian
Gulf?
_______ are human
made waterways.
What are canals?
Babylon was located
near present day
_______.
What is Baghdad,
Iraq?
______________
developed the first
known alphabet.
Who are the
Phoenicians?
__________ developed
the world’ first system
of writing.
Who are the
Sumerians?
Babylon’s most
powerful monarch was
_______________.
Who is Hammurabi?
_________ was a great
military leader who
established the first
written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
________ is another
name for writer.
What is scribe?
Name two reasons
crops grew well in
Mesopotamia.
What are fertile land
and access to water?
People in Sumer
settled where crops
could grow. Then,
their ______ grew, and
villages/cities formed.
What is population?
The people of Sumer
were quite
__________.
What is religious?
The ___________ was
the most important
structure/architecture
in Sumer.
What is ziggurat?
____________ is the
world’s first system of
writing.
What is cuneiform?
Social hierarchy in
Sumer included kings
first, then priests,
_______ and
___________ , farmers
and laborers, and
lastly, slaves.
Who are merchants
and craftsman?
A _________
describes a
condition of more
goods than are
needed.
What is a surplus ?
The ________
_____________ is a
large arc of fertile
farmland in Southwest
Asia.
What is the Fertile
Crescent?
The basic political unit
of Sumer was called a
______-______.
What is a city-state?
True or false …
Hammurabi’s Code
showed that all people
were treated equally
in Babylon.
What is false?