Artifacts
The countries the allies went into.
What is Iraq?
Mud bricks.
What is what Mesopotamia used to build their houses?
Walls.
What is what protected city states?
Polytheistic.
What is the belief in many gods?
First warrior people.
Who were the Assyrians?
The name of the museum that got looted.
What is the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad?
Tigris and Euphrates river.
What are the rivers that made up the Fertile Crescent?
The type of temple found in each city state.
What is ziggurat?
3000 BCE
What is the year the first ziggurat was built?
Stronger metal than bronze.
What is iron?
2,466
What is the amount of artifacts found in Jordan?
1800s
What is the year archeologists found tangible evidence of Mesopotamia?
Each city state had its own.
What is god, ruler, and laws?
What are ancient tombs?
Paved roads, postal service and libraries.
What are things created by the Assyrians?
Coins and cuneiform tablets.
What is what the US returned?
The wheel, how we count time, soap and sailboat.
What are things invented by the Mesopotamians?
Lugal
What is the Mesopotamian word for ruler?
1700 BCE
25,000 clay tablet fragments.
What are the ancient Assyrian libraries discovered in the 1850s?
$14,000,000
Egypt, Israel, Syria, Iraq.
What are the modern countries of the Fertile Crescent?
Wealthy people, a middle class and slaves.
What are the class structures of Mesoptamia?
Cuneiform.
"The Epic of Gilgamesh"
What is one of the oldest recorded stories in history created by the Assyrians?