A long period of time when there is little or no rainfall.

Widespread lack of food

The trade of one kind of product for another without the use of money.

The Sumerian form of writing; it is in the shape of wedges.

The belief in many gods

The belief in one god.

The founder and great Hebrew Leader

A self-governing city and the surrounding lands.

Legend has it that this fisherman was the first Sumerian in the Fertile Crescent.

Sumerians built temples that were the highest point in the town and were a place of worship.

Means "the land between two rivers"

What set of of laws was brought down by Moses during the Hebrews exit from Egypt?

Hammurabi was the first to write down laws for a city-state, these laws were called....

A strip of well watered, rich land in the Middle East

Name the two rivers that flow through the Fertile Crescent region.

Name a city-state that was found in the civilization of Sumer.

What river flows by the first settlement....

What mountain range borders the Fertile Crescent region to the Northeast.

Which modern day government is closely related to that of Sumer?