Geography and Farming
These two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These are independent cities and the surrounding lands of Sumer?
What are city-states?
The ancient Mesopotamian writing system?
What is Cuneiform?
The Babylonian king famous for his written code of laws
Who was Hammurabi?
The important writing system did the Phoenicians help spread.
What is the alphabet?
The name of the fertile region in Southwest Asia where Mesopotamia developed?
What is The Fertile Crescent?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
The materials used to make tablets for writing
What is clay?
The written collection of laws created under this Babylonian king
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The Phoenicians were named after this color related product
What is purple dye?
What is irrigation?
Bringing water to farmland allows farmers to grow crops.
A large, stepped religious structure with a temple at the top was the center of Sumerian cities.
What is a Ziggurat?
People trained to read and write?
What are Scribes
The punishment for stealing from a temple under Hammurabi's Code.
Persian ruler known for allowing conquered peoples to keep their religions and traditions.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
Extra food allowed people to specialize in jobs besides farming.
What is a food surplus
A system that divides people into groups based on power and status
What is Social hierarchy?
An ancient Mesopotamian story featuring a king searching for immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A poorly built house collapsed and destroyed a neighbor's property, this is what the builder had to do
What is rebuild the damaged property
The official religion of ancient Persia, unique due to being monotheistic
What is Zoroastrianism
Fertile materialleft behind by river floods.
What is Silt?
The main purpose of a Sumerian ziggurat
What is worship and honor the gods?
A term that means living forever, something Gilgamesh sought?
What is Immortality
The idea that a punishment could resemble the injury committed
what is an eye for an eye?
The nam of the provinces that Darius organize the Persian Empire into
What are Satrapies?