Geography
This region of the world is also known as The Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
The earliest Mesopotamian cities were ruled by this class.
What were priest-kings?
This invention is still used today to divide time.
What is the division of time?
These three cities were some of the earliest in Mesopotamia.
What were Ur, Uruk, and Kish?
This king founded the Akkadian Empire.
Who was King Sargon?
The two rivers found in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Mesopotamian religion can be described as this.
What is polytheistic?
This invention used a clay tablet and a sharpened reed to record information.
What is Cuneiform (writing)?
This was the first recorded empire in Mesopotamia.
What was the Akkadian Empire?
This Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire in 331 BC.
This mountain range is found to the north of Mesopotamia.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
The middle class of Mesopotamian societies were made up of these three groups.
What are civil servants, artisans, and merchants?
This invention was discovered by combining copper and tin.
What is bronze?
This city was founded by the Amorites in ~1800 BC.
What was Babylon?
This Babylonian king is credited with building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
This mountain range is found to the east of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
The Mesopotamian religion was practiced in this pyramid-like temple.
What is a ziggurat?
This invention led to further discoveries like the chariot.
What is the wheel?
This empire conquered Mesopotamia through the use of iron weapons.
What was the Assyrian Empire?
This mythical king went on a search for immortality.
Who was Gilgamesh?
This body of water is found to the southeast of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This Mesopotamian poem is the oldest piece of written literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This invention provided Mesopotamians with the ability to control river flooding.
What is irrigation?
This empire began to the east of Mesopotamia near the Zagros Mountains.
What was the Persian Empire?
This Babylonian king is credited with creating the first written law code.
Who was Hammurabi?