Geography
Name the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Babylonian king famous for his strict code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The world's first system of writing using wedge shapes.
What is a cuneiform?
The term for believing in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
Groups of traveling merchants
What is a caravan?
The rich, crescent-shaped farmland area in Southwest Asia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The leader who created the world's first empire (Akkad).
Who is Sargon?
The method used to bring water from rivers to farm fields.
What is irrigation?
The social class that included farmers, artisans, and merchants.
What is the middle class?
People who regularly move from place to place
Who are Nomads?
The modern-day country where most of ancient Mesopotamia is located
What is Iraq?
A fierce war-like empire known for utilizing iron weapons.
What is Assyria?
A massive stepped temple tower built to worship gods.
What is a ziggurat?
The group of people at the very bottom of the social pyramid.
Who are slaves?
What is means when you tame plants or animals for human use
What is domesticate?
Fine, fertile particles of soil left behind after a river floods.
What is silt?
The phrase famous in Hammurabi's Code meaning equal retaliation. -> What is "an eye for an eye"?
What is "an eye for an eye"?
A professional writer trained to keep records on clay tablets.
What is a scribe?
The only people originally trusted inside the top of a ziggurat.
Who are the priests?
Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock
What are fossils?
What the literal Greek word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is "land between two rivers"?
The Neo-Babylonian king who built the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The famous epic poem about a king of Uruk.
What is the Epic of Gilamesh?
Having more food or goods than you immediately need.
What is a surplus?
A group of many different lands under one ruler