Terms
The fertile Land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is called what?
The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia's first writing system. Originally invented for taxation and record-keeping purposes and written on clay tablets. Written in wedge-form
Cuneiform
The worlds oldest EPIC poem about a legendary leader
The Epic of Gilgamesh
He said, "If a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out".
King Hammurabi
Fine sand at the bottom of a river bottom that is left on the ground after a river floods its banks.
Silt
"land between the rivers"
Mesopotamia
People who could write
scribes
A class of people that built the ziggurats
Slaves
The worlds first written laws
The code of hammurabi
mountains in Mesopotamia
Zagros
The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
Irrigation
Based on the number 60, this was used to measure Land accurately, farmers to mark their territory, recorded crop production, builders used it to make clay bricks of identical size and shape.
Standard of measurement
The worlds first Emperor
King Sargon
Introduced the worlds first written laws
King Hammurabi
Rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
a person who uses specialized skills to produce goods or services such as weavers, potters, metalworkers, bricklayers, made tools, and built houses.
Artisans
The first civilization in Mesopotamia
Sumer
The worlds first empire
Akkad
means many different lands under the rule of one government
empire
sea west of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean
government with a leader whose power is inherited through royal bloodline
monarchy/kinship
Invented to help merchants travel by river to distant markets
Sail
To worship hundreds of different gods
polytheists
a city and the surrounding areas of farmland that is governed by its own leader
City-state
Body of water south of Mesopotamia that the Tigris and Euphrates river feeds in to.
Persian Gulf
The process of mixing two metals to create new metals
Metallurgy
The Sumerians mixed what two metals to create bronze?
Tin and Copper
Temples where priests gave offerings of food, jewelry, and other valuables to please the gods.
Ziggurats
What are 3 things that made transportation in easier in Mesopotamia?
Wheeled-Carts
Domesticated Animals
Boats powered by Sails and Men
What does Mesopotamia Mean?
"the lands between two rivers"