Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
The name of the pyramid-shaped temple towers found in each city-state...
What is a ziggurat?
The name of the Sumerian writing form that inscribed symbols on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Define a city-state.
What is a city and its surrounding country side that operates as an independent state?
The types of jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia
What are Farmers, fishers, merchants, traders, and artisans?
The make up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who are priests, kings and government officials?
Advantages and disadvantages of floods.
What are (pro) silt fertile soil deposits and (con) damage to structures, fields, and death.
How many Gods did the Ancient Mesopotamians worship
Considered to be the oldest written story.
What is 'the Epic of Gilgamesh in Ancient Mesopotamia'?
The name of the first Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia and its leader.
Who is Sargon? and What is the Akkadian empire?
Word used to describe buying, selling, or exchanging goods...
What is 'trade'?
The make up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia.
Who are Artisans, fisherman, and merchants?
This land was referred to as the Cradle of Civilization.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Define polytheistic.
What is the belief in many or multiple Gods?
The number system that the Ancient Mesopotamians created.
What is the Base-60 system?
• 60 minute, 60 second
• 360 degree circle
Explain the purpose of the Code of Hammurabi in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is to "make justice visible in the land, to destroy the wicked person and the evil-doer, that the strong might not injure the weak"?
The name of someone who goes to school to learn to write and become government officials.
What are Scribes?
The make up of the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who are Slaves & Prisoners?
Name 1 of the 2 seas that flow into the Fertile Crescent
What are 'the Persian Gulf or Mediterranean Sea'?
Explain the role of priests in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is priests were powerful and did religious ceremonies?
The uses of cuneiform include...
What is record-keeping, written laws, and trade transactions?
Name used to describe territories and people who are under one ruler
What is an 'Empire'?
When more than enough is made this is called..
What is 'surplus'?
These individuals had to hardest lives back then and had no rights
Who are 'slaves'?
The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers brought nutrient-rich rock deposits called...
What is silt?
TRUE or FALSE?
Mesopotamians believed that things like famine, drought, or other natural disasters were the gods punishing them.
What is 'TRUE'?
A human-made structure that controls the amount of water flow to prevent flooding
What is a dam?
The group was treated more severely when it came to Hammurabi's Code
What is the 'poor, working class, or slave?
Uses of cuneiform.
What is business records on taxes and trade?
Cities / Complex government / Job specialization / Writing systems are all labeled as this.
What are 'characteristics of civilization'?