Geography
Desccribe Mesopotamia's climate
What is hot and dry?
Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife
A mixture of copper and tin
What is a bronze?
People who study and write about the past
Who are historians?
A long poem that tells a story of a hero
What is a epic?
This was the center of the Chaldean Empire
What is Babylon?
A group of many different lands under one ruler
What is an empire?
The method used to bring water from rivers to farm fields.
What is irrigation?
The social class that included farmers, artisans, and merchants.
What is the middle class?
Things made by humans a long time ago
What are artifacts?
One of the oldest known cities
What is Jericho?
Developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons.
Who were the Hittites?
Sumerian building material.
What is a mudbrick?
The group of people at the very bottom of the social pyramid.
Who are slaves?
Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops
What is irrigation?
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered the earth
What were the Ice Ages?
Wrote the legal code that covered most areas of daily life
Who is Hammurabi?
The Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform?
The only people originally trusted inside the top of a ziggurat.
Who are the priests?
Known as the "Cradle of Civilization"
What is Mesopotamia?
Means "Old Stone Age"
What is Paleolithic?
The Neo-Babylonian king who built the Hanging Gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery
What are artisans?
Artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group.
What is the middle class?
A group of traveling merchants
What is a caravan?