Rulers
I was a Babylonian King who established a code of law.
Who is HAMMURABI?
What word means "the belief in many gods?"
What is polytheism?
Why were Ziggurats so tall?
What is so that they could be closer to the Gods.
What did most kings start out as before they hogged all of the authority in their cities?
What are Warlords, Generals, Military Men?
Name 3 Sumerian inventions.
What are the Wheel, the Sail, the Plow, Irrigation, Calendar, and Writing.
A professional writer who had a TON of power.
What is a scribe?
A traditional, usually religious story.
What is a myth?
Name ONE Sumerian city.
What are Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Eridu, Nippur, Kish
I am the BIG body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The people who lived/worked in the Ziggurat that were not the king.
Who are the Priests?
Which real/mythical (weird contradiction, right?) person was a "King without Equal?"
Gilgamesh
The religious center of each City-State.
What is a Ziggurat?
The Sumerians combined Copper and Tin to create which alloy?
What is Bronze?
The term for a city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
This was the biggest reason that nomads were able to settle down and create civilizations.
What is agriculture/farming?
What does "Mesopotamia" mean?
What is The Land Between Two Rivers?
What two nature-related things made it difficult to farm in Mesopotamia?
What are Floods, or being surrounded by deserts and droughts.