Vocabulary
The method of watering crops.
What is irrigation?
Sargon was the ruler of this kingdom.
What is the kingdom of Akkad?
Sumerians were the first people to use this.
What is the wheel?
Mesopotamia is located in the area known as this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
If you live in Sumer you are most likely this.
What is a farmer?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
Sargon's empire included all people of Mesopotamia that lasted this long.
What is 200 years?
Sumerians invented this to help them in the fields.
What is the plow?
Mesopotamia is located by this gulf.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This is thought to be the biggest contribution that Sumerians made to the world.
What is writing?
A large temple meaning "to rise high"
What is a ziggurat?
Who is the Amorites?
The Sumerians were the first to make this out of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
These are the rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates and Tigris River?
A way of writing created by Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
The empire that rose about 1,000 years after the empire of Hammurabi.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Sumerians used bronze to create these.
What are stronger tools, weapons, and jewelry?
Mesopotamia is between these two countries.
What is Asia and Africa?
A long poem that tells the story of a hero.
What is an epic?
Captured Babylon and made it apart of their empire.
Who are the Persians?
Sumerians created this time frame that we still use today.
What are 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes?
Mesopotamia is located by this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?