Vocabulary
Growing plants for food
agriculture
Word's first civilization
Sumer
World's first written language
Cuneiform
Name both rivers
Tigris and Euphrates
In chess, which piece moves in an L shaped pattern?
Knight
A government with a king or queen
Monarchy
Made a famous law code
Hammurabi
Nickname for the region of Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
On which continent is Mesopotamia
Africa
What is the largest animal on Earth?
Blue Whale
Belief in many/more than one god
Polytheism
Made the first empire, the Akkadian empire
Sargon
A city that acts like its own country
City-State
Sargon used this group to enforce the rules in his empire
Army
What is the only bird that can fly backwards
Hummingbird
Watering plants
Irrigation
Group of people that lived west of Mesopotamia and practiced monotheism
Israelites
Body of water the the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into
Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia means this in Greek
"land between the rivers"
What is the only continent without ants
Antarctica (ha ha ha)
Fertile soil found along a river
Silt
King of Persian, conquered Mesopotamia
Cyrus
The Israelites created the Hebrew Bible, also known as this
Old Testament
Nickname for Hammurabi's Code
Eye for an Eye
How many bones are in the average adult human body
206