Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia sits between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The temples were built in what areas
What is in the center of the city?
Early form of writing was in the form of pictures called
What is Pictograph?
system of watering the crops
Main purpose for the Code of Hammurabi
What is an established set of laws that applied to everyone in the Babylonian Empire?
Describe the climate and geography of Ancient Mesopotamia
What is very rich soil?
In Ancient Mesopotamia Polytheism means
What is the belief in many or multiple gods?
Number system created by Ancient Mesopotamians
What is based on 60? 60 minutes, 60 seconds,360 degree circle)
a sharpened reed tool used to press markings into a clay tablet
What is a stylus?
Word used to describe buying, selling, or exchanging goods...
What is Trade?
The area of the Fertile Crescent most resembles (looks like) a
What is a crescent moon or boomerang shape?
the role of Priests in Ancient Mesopotamia
(Mesopotamia Religion)
What are religious ceremonies?
Written language Ancient Mesopotamians created
What is Cuneiform?
A community that included a city and its nearby farmland
What is City-state?
Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who is priests, kings, government officials, wealthy merchants, and landowners?
Name the body of water that both the Euphrates and Tigris rivers flow into
What is the Persian Gulf?
Name of the temples the Sumerian's worshipped their gods
What are ziggurats?
Name 3 Inventions / Achievements of the Ancient Mesopotamians
• Sailboats
• Plow
• Wheel
• Irrigation built levees
• number systems based on 60
• Metal
• Cuneiform
• Epic of Gilgamesh
Wedge-shaped writing
What is Cuneiform?
Makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who is all free people also farmers and artisans?
There were five major cities in Mesopotamia. Name 2 of them.
What are Akkad, Assur, Babylon, Nineveh, Uruk, or Ur
What is Uruk?
The people of Mesopotamia's main crop was this.
Wheat/Barley
The largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city
What is a Ziggurat?
Who are Gilgamesh and Enkidu?