Mesopotamia
The land between the rivers
Mesopotamia
Wedge-shaped writing developed by the Sumerians
Cuneiform writing
Fine particles of fertile soil left behind after the Tigris and Euphrates flooded
Silt
The first king of Babylon
King Hammurabi
A group of many different lands under one ruler.
Empire
How many laws make up Hammurabi's Code
282
Mesopotamia is situated between these two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
The Sumerians belief in more than one god.
Polytheism
A system used to get water where it was needed using ditches, pipes, and canals
Irrigation
An important set of written laws designed to keep order and protect the weak.
The Code of Hammurabi
Professional writers and record keepers.
Scribes
Pyramid shaped temples used for worship.
Ziggarats
An area of land that stretches from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean through the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, to the mouth of the Persian Gulf
The Fertile Crescent
This group invented the wheel, sailboat, wooden plow, 12-month calendar and others.
The Sumerians
A major step in the development of the Mesopotamian civilization.
Surplus Food
This army was well-trained and the first to use iron weaponry.
The Assyrians
An individual unit with its own government army, and traditions.
City-state
People of Mesopotamia would trade or _________ to get goods they wanted or did not have.
Barter
This is said to be the first city-state in Mesopotamia.
Sumer
The first group of people to settle in the Mesopotamia region
The Sumerians
Hammurabi's code was developed to be fair and protect the _________.
Weak/poor/less fortunate
The Babylonian king responsible for building the Gates if Ishtar and the Hanging Gardens
King Nebuchadnezzer II
Political districts within and empire.
Provinces
The four seas that surround Mesopotamia are the Caspian Sea, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and the _____ Sea.
Mediterranean
The Akkadian leader that was said to have established the world's first empire?
Sargon
Most Sumerians held jobs as artisans, farmers, or _____________.
Merchants
Under King _________, Babylon was the most powerful city in the world at the time.
Hammurabi
The Assyrians built one of the first __________ and housed clay tablets with cuneiform writing.
Libraries
A group of people with a complex and organized society within a culture
Civilization
Aden