Power Words
Government which runs in the name of a god or gods.
What is a theocracy?
Wedge shaped writing on clay tablets or stone.
What is Cuneiform?
Two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
90% of the population were these people.
What are farmers and slaves?
This weather phenomenon was mentioned in multiple ancient religious texts.
What is a flood?
The basic units of Sumerian civilization
What is a city state?
Someone who moves from place to place
What is a nomad?
Mesopotamia is located in the part of the world that we know of as this in 2024.
What is the Middle East?
These people held jobs such as craftsmen, fishing and farming.
Who were the craftsmen/commoners?
The earliest piece of literature known is called this.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Worshipping multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
A group of states (city states) under the rule of one authority.
What is an empire?
The name of a large sea to the east of Mesopotamia?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the name for the most important people in Mesopotamia.
If you destroy the eye of another person the punishment will be this.
What is - you lose your eye?
A temple built in the centre of a city dedicated to a particular god or goddess.
What is a Ziggurat?
A society controlled by men where women have little or no privileges.
What is patriarchal?
The name of an ancient city in Mesopotamia?
What is....
Babylon, Ur, Urduk
These people worked for the nobles and palaces.
Who were the craftsmen or commoners?
The bad guy in this epic poem.
Who is Enkidu?
An area of fertile land located in the Middle East between two rivers. This is the area where ancient civilizations flourished.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A strict and harsh set of laws written by a Babylonian King.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Mesopotamia was located in the country we now call ________.
Iraq
Iran, Turkey, Syria
This small percent of the population were made up of these three types of people (must name all 3).
Who are the priests, officials and royals?
There were _____ laws in the Code of Hammurabi?
What is 282?