Fertile Crescent
How farmers kept crops alive during the hot summers
What is irrigation
The number of social classes in Sumer
What is 3
Written language of Sumer
When one people defeats another
What is conquest
Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
What is barter
The two major bodies of water that was at each end of Mesopotamia
What are the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf
The name of the religion they practiced
What is polytheism?
Pictures that represent objects
What are pictographs
Created Mesopotamia's first empire
Who was Sargon the Great
Person who was trained to write
What is a scribe
Two major innovations to come out of Sumer
What are the wheel and the sail
Government headed by a king
What is a kingship
Small set of letters or symbols, each of which stands for a single sound
What is an alphabet
Created the Babylonian Empire
Written set of laws
What is law code
The two rivers that border the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
King who implemented earliest law code
Who is Ur-Nammu
Where our alphabet has its roots
What is Egypt
Created Mesopotamia's second empire
Who is Ur-Nammu
Transfer of ideas or customs from one culture to another
What is cultural borrowing
Made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages it controls
What is a city-state?
The two most powerful individuals in Sumerian society
What are kings and priests
People who modified our alphabet to make it what it is today
Who are the Greeks
Center of the New Mesopotamian Empire
What is Babylon?
A group of countries or peoples who are ruled by one government
What is an empire