Mesopotamia
What are the names of the twin rivers?
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
Which civilization was believed to be the oldest civilization?
What is Sumer?
Which Mesopotamian civilization created the first empire in history?
What is Akkad?
What were massive, pyramid-like, stepped structures with flat tops called?
What are Ziggurats?
What was the most common religion in Persia?
What is Zoroastrianism?
What was the name of the cresent-shaped region surrounding the twin rivers?
What is Fertile Crescent?
An independent city that serves as a cultural center for a surrounding region was known as what?
What is city-state?
What allowed Mesopotamia to get important resources that they did no have?
What is Trade?
What is the belief in more than one god or spiritual being called?
What is Polytheism?
Assyria build a " ____ society"
What is a "Warrior Society"?
What are the five major civilizations of Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia?
What where the written laws and punishments that were carved onto 7-foot- high stone tablets?
What is Hammurabi's Code?
What three important goods and factors influenced all of Mesopotamia's economic history?
What is agriculture, textiles, and pottery?
Akkadians invented this that was used to press clay to seal important documents.
What is Cylinder Seal?
Who was the first king in Persia?
What is Cyrus?
Mesopotamia was considered to be the "_____"
What is "Cradle of Civilizations"?
Persia constructed the " ___ Road" that connected the Persian empire to make trade and travel easier.
What is "Royal Road"?
What was the name of the method of bring water to fields through ditches or pipes?
WHat is Irrigation?
What was the first known written language called?
What is Cuneiform?
Which civilization had Gilgamesh as their king?
What is Sumer?
In what continent was Mesopotamia located?
What is Asia?
How many laws were in Hammurabi's Code?
What is 282 Laws?
What was used to demonstrate the social classes of Mesopotamia with a top and bottom section?
What is social Structure/pyramid?
In the Persian culture who were highly respected?
What is Women?
Which civilization was the most famous of Mesopotamia?
What is Babylon?