Geography
Geographic features that were most important in Mesopotamia
Two Rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
First written law code
Code of Hammurabi
In charge of growing the food for the city
Farmers
Live forever
Immortal
Good farming land
Fertile land
Wedge shaped writing system
Cuneiform
Who was the King of Babylon?
Hammurabi
Learned how to write and in charge of keeping records
Scribes
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
Another name for Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
A long narrative poem about a hero
Epic
Gilgamesh built this around his city if Uruk
A Wall
Ruler of the city
King
Fertile soil left by flooding rivers
Silt
Terms defined as a city or country with laws and culture. Happened as a result of people settling near rivers
Civilization
Pyramid shaped temple
Ziggurat
A form of a small government where the city is in control of itself
City-State
Held religious ceremonies, was one of the highest jobs in each city state
Priest
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
Man made system of getting water to your farms
Irrigation
First book ever written
Epic of Gilgamesh
This was invented so that farmers could plan their planting around the flooding season
Calendars
In charge of selling goods at markets
Merchants
A group of territories all under one government or rules is known as an
Empire