Mesopotamia Geography
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods?
The Ziggurats
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
Cuneiform
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government is known as a what?
City-state
What led to the expansion of specialized jobs and population in ancient Mesopotamia?
Food surplus
The way a civilization is organized?
Social Classes
Fine particles of rock that were left over after floods
Silt
What did the Ancient Mesopotamians believe in?
Polytheism
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
Hammurabi's code
Who created the oldest code of law?
Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write
Who makes up the nobility of ancient Mesopotamia
King
Tigris or Euphrates
In Ancient Mesopotamia, what does Polytheism mean?
The belief in multiple gods
What helped Mesopotamians travel and trade?
Wheel
Powerful, ruthless, empire in Northern Mesopotamia?
Assyria
What animal did the people domesticate to help carry goods?
Donkey
Who makes up the middle class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers and skilled workers
What bodies of water are at the top and bottom of Mesopotamia?
Mediterranean sea and the Persian Gulf
Aside from a God, who was the next highest for religious authority?
Priest
What is one agricultural achievement that the Mesopotamians made?
Seed spreader-- irrigation
What civilization did the people of mesopotamia trade with?
Indus River Valley Civilization
How did trade make their culture rich (not money)?
Through trade, they met others, traded ideas that made them "grow" as a culture and peoples
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia? Must name them all.
who are merchants, artisans, priests, priestesses and scribes?
What is this area of land called that is between two rivers?
Fertile Crescent
Every part
Where were the first libraries located?
Nineveh
Who was the king of the Akkadians?
Sargon
where would a trade station be?
In a city-state
Upper class, because he would've been a scribe. Writing the blueprints/schematics of buildings