Geography
Name a city or kingdom of Mesopotamia.
Babylon, Sumer, Akkad, Ur, Nineveh, Assyria, Babylonia
People had to keep who happy to have a good life?
The gods
Name of Mesopotamian temples built for the gods.
Ziggurat
What is a stylus.
Cuneiforms pen. How scribes mark their tablets. Made from reeds.
What invention was originally made for pottery?
The Wheel
Mesopotamia is located in what present day country?
Iraq
What job did farmers do when they weren't in the field and there was a chance of war?
They were also usually soldiers.
What were city roads like? Why?
Narrow and winding to protect against invasion.
Name of the people who read and wrote in cuneiform?
Scribes
What form of writing did Mesopotamians create?
Cuneiform
What were the two rivers of Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Two jobs women could have.
Tavern owner, priestess, housekeeper
Why were walls built feet thick with clay?
To keep the heat out.
What type of religion did mesopotamians practice?
Polytheistic
The king of Babylon wanted to make his wife happy and built a temple covered with plants. One of the seven wonders of the world.
What is the name of the area also known as the "cradle of civilization", also the area in between the two rivers of mesopotamia.
The Fertile Crescent
Why did women have more rights than in some other societies?
They worshiped goddesses as well as gods.
What was art usually dedicated to? What was it made of?
The gods, Clay.
Define Irrigation? What did Mesopotamians use to irrigate.
Getting water to crops. They used canals.
What was the name of the first code of written laws? What was the basis of these laws?
Hammurabi's code. Eye for an Eye
How were farmers houses made different from that of homes within cities.
Farmers used reeds and clay from the rivers, while city homes used bricks and built around a courtyard.
Where did kings trace their family tree to?
Back to the gods.
Where were ziggurats located? What were two purposes of them?
Center of the city. Storage, religious ceremonies, protection, town-hall.
What does BCE and CE mean?
Before Common Era, and Common Era
How did Babylon get water to the Hanging Gardens?
With a screw pump or a bucket wheel where buckets were pulled up by rope attached to two wheels.