Physical Features
This name comes from the Greek meaning "between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
This invention helped make transportation and pottery making much easier.
What is the wheel?
This is the term used for when people worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
This was the first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
The abbreviation ca. means this
What is around?
In the Bible this was the city-state that God called Abram out of
What is Ur?
These long poems usually tell the story of a hero.
What is an epic?
A pyramid type temple.
What is a ziggurat?
He was the king of the Chaldeans.
Who was Nebbuchadnezzar?
In ancient Mesopotamia certain people were allowed to attend school and study to become this.
What is wealthy boys and scribe?
These two rivers flow into the Persian Gulf.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
This writing was wedge shaped and helped us to learn more about Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
These people were supposedly the only ones that could communicate with the gods.
What are the priests?
He was the king of the Amorites who collected 282 laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
This is a practice that relied on the position of the stars and planets to tell the future.
What is astrology?
This is a mound made up of layered dirt and remains of buildings.
What is a tell?
When this was invented it was based on the cycles of the moon.
What is the 12 month calendar?
The Mesopotamians believed the man was created to serve these.
Who are the gods?
He was the emperor of the Akkadian Empire.
Who was Sargon I?
These were three tools invented to help with farming.
What is the wheel, plow, and the yoke?
Asia minor is a peninsula located between these two seas.
What is the Black Sea and the Mediterreanean Sea?
The Mesopotamians were known for the architectural advances. These three things are what they are best known for.
What are arches, columns, and domes?
Each city-state in Mesopotamia had a leader. They were chosen by these important people and called this.
Who are priests and kings?
The Amorite civilization was part of this empire.
What was the Babylonian Empire?
This man uncovered the city of Ur.
Who was Sir Leonard Woolley?