Vocabulary
These were independent and had their own ruler
What is a city-state?
What is the Fertile Crescent.
People of Ancient Mesopotamia needed to grow _________ to start a civilization.
What is Crops?
The ruler of this area of land was called.
Who is Sumer?
The top social class of Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who were the Nobles?
A form of writing in ancient Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
What is Iraq?
They needed to permanent ___________.
What is a home?
A group of states or countries under one ruler is called this.
What is an empire?
The middle class people of Sumeria.
Who were the Craftsmen?
Belief in more then one god.
What is the polytheistic?
These rivers ran through the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
They created the first form of a written ____________.
What is language?
What is a Ziggurat?
The lower class of Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who were the farmers?
People that wondered or traveled from place to place.
What are Nomads?
The word means to bring water by trenches and canals to water the crops.
What is irrigate?
They developed these new "technologies".
What is the wheel, or sun dial or tools?
Another famous ruler of Sumeria that had his own code.
Who was Hammurabi?
Two thirds god and one part human and a warrior.
Who was Gilgamesh?
The are of land that was once Ancient Mesopotamia is shaped like this.
The government created these to help people live together.
What is laws?
What is strong people don't hurt weak people?
Enkidu
Who was Gilgameshes best friend?