Mesopotamia Geography
The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
Pyramid shaped religious buildings in the center of city-states
What are ziggurats?
First transportation invention made by Mesopotamians
What is the wheel?
City that governs itself and surrounding area
What are city-states?
Most popular job in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are farmers?
Society, culture, and way of life of a group of people
What is civilization?
Moon shaped area that was considered to have great farm ground.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
Agricultural achievement of the Mesopotamians
What is irrigation or domestication of animals?
What was the first civilization to arise between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What system did the Mesopotamians use instead of money?
What is the Barter System, or a system of trading?
Who makes up the second class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who are the priests?
What is land between the rivers?
The oldest recorded story of all time
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
World's oldest set of written laws
What is Hammurabi's code?
a group of many different lands under one ruler
What is an empire?
Who is at the top of the Mesopotamia social hierarchy?
Who are kings?
the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who are craftspeople, merchants, artisans, and farmers?
Flooded rivers left this rich soil behind
What is silt?
Who did the Mesopotamians believe could talk to their gods and keep them happy?
Who are the Priests/Priestesses?
When you bring water to your crops through waterways and ditches
Created the first empire in Mesopotamia?
Who is Sargon?
A group of traveling merchants
What is a caravan?
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who are enslaved people?
The Assyrian Empire's capital city
What is Nineveh?
A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
What is an epic?
First written language
What is Cuneiform?
Who created the oldest code of law?
Who was Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire?
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write and become government officials?
What are Scribes?
People who study the heavenly bodies (stars, planets) are called this
What are astronomers?