Geography
Mesopotamia is located on this continent.
What is Asia?
He created the first set of written laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
The Mesopotamian creation myth.
What is the Enuma Elish?
To believe in many gods.
What is polytheism?
The largest building within Mesopotamia's city-states and place of worship.
What is a ziggurat?
This body of water served as a major trade route.
What is the Persian Gulf?
In Mesopotamia, this group of people were considered lower in status than men.
Who were women?
In the beginning only this existed.
What is water?
Having more than what you actually need.
What is a surplus?
This number was especially important in Mesopotamians mathematics.
What is 60?
Mesopotamia is sometimes called this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
If a person ruined someone else's property because they were lazy, they became this.
What is a slave?
This goddess battles Marduk and when she is killed, her body becomes the earth and sky.
Who is Tiamat?
The countryside.
What is rural?
Thank goodness for this invention! It made things fa less smelly!
What is the sewer system?
These two rivers flow southeast into the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Hammurabi believed these individuals gave him the power to rule over the people.
Who were the gods?
This gods blood and bones are used to create the first humans.
Who was Kingu?
To bring water from one area to another.
What is irrigation?
This made farming so much easier and created a surplus of food.
What is the plow?
This city-state was said to be the home of the gods.
What is Babylon?
If a man decided to divorce his wife, she was entitled to receive this back.
What is a dowry?
The god of fresh water wo is eventually killed by Ea.
Who is Apsu?
The Mesopotamian form of writing and the first written language.
What is cuneiform?
The worlds oldest written epic poem.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?