Artifacts
This blue box offers clues about what life was like in Sumer.
What is the Standard of Ur?
This phrase still used today is an example of how the laws tried to prevent revenge and comes from King Hammurabi's Code.
What is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?
The things that allowed the Ancient Mesopotamian civilization to specialize in certain jobs.
What are a stable food supply and surplus?
This area in between and around the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers was the birthplace of early civilization in the area.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Each Sumerian city had its own main god and built one of these to honor that god.
What is a ziggurat?
This ruler conquered Sumer and became the leader of the first ever empire. His dynasty lasted for two hundred years.
Who is Sargon?
Scribes used these to write on clay tablets.
What are reeds?
This geographical feature connects to the Mediterranean Sea and has a Delta.
What is the Nile River?
This board game is one of the first and oldest ever discovered.
What is the Royal Game of Ur?
This empire ruled harshly when they conquered a city with their iron weapons.
Who are the Assyrians?
Mesopotamians invented these to help prevent flooding.
What are levees?
This geographical feature forms the eastern border of the Fertile Cresent.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
This is considered the oldest written story ever found and depicts a hero king strong enough to pick up a lion.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This ruler captured Ninevah and burned it down, ending the Assyrian empire.
Who is Nabopolassar?
This is considered the oldest form of writing in the world.
What is cuneiform?
The flooding rivers of Mesopotamia left this behind, creating an idea place to grow crops.
What is silt?
This collection of laws created by a Babylonian king to establish laws and punishments is still important today.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This empire conquered the Neo-Babylonians after Nebuchadnezzar ruled and made many advances in math and science.
What is the Persian Empire?
This object invented by Sumerians allowed them to make carts and chariots.
What is the wheel?
This is one of the modern day countries that is now located in part of the Fertile Crescent.
What is Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, or Jordan?