Mesopotamia Geography
Mesopotamia Religion
Mesopotamia Achievements
Mesopotamia Politics
Mesopotamia Economy
Mesopotamia Social Structure
100
These two rivers flow through the land of Ancient Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates River
100
These pyramid-like structures with religious shrines on top were built in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Ziggurats
100
Name any achievement of the ancient Mesopotamians.
--Writing system
--12 month lunar calendar, sundials, 60 minute hour, 360 degree circles, astronomy, system of written language
--Farming and Irrigation
--Used wheels, made chariots
--built huge ziggurats
--Made a system of written laws
100
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government is known as this
What is a City-state?
100
This abundance of food through agriculture allowed the human population to grow
Food surplus
--This was important because people could do other jobs besides hunting, gathering food, and growing crops, and is the basis for what we call civilization.
100
The way a civilization is organized is known as this
Social structure
200
Name one of the countries that exists today that isin the same area where the Ancient Mesopotamians lived long ago
Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. (They also expanded to Egypt and along the coast of Greece).
200
The ancient Mesopotamians worshipped many gods and goddesses in the belief system known as this
Polytheism
200
These three factors helped Sumerian agriculture flourish (grow)
They cultivated the fertile soil, made systems for irrigation, and used ox-driven plows
200
This powerful Northern Mesopotamian empire conquered Babylon using bows and arrows, chariots, battering rams, and armored horses
Assyria
200
This seafaring people were known for their shipbulding skills and extensive trade across the Mediterranean Sea
The Phoenicians
200
These people had the most power in ancient Mesopotamia
The Kings and Priests
300
These were ways that the rivers were dangerous and not helpful to the people living there
They flooded unpredictably in the spring and swept away villages and crops
300
Most of the gods and goddesses of ancient Mesopotamia represented this
forces of nature which mainly included water, rain, thunderstorms, floods, and the sky and winds
300
The world's first known system of written laws was established by a Babylon king and can be found carved into a stele
Hammurabi's Code
300
The name of a state that contains several countries or territories is an
empire
300
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write
300
The dividing of society based on people's status or worth is known as
a social class or social structure
400
These two geographic features serves as borders to the Akkadian Empire ruled by Sargon I
The Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Persian Guld to the southeast
400
What is the name of the epic Akkadian poem that describes a heroic Babylonian King?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
400
The creation of this by Darius I helped improve communications throughout the Persian Empire
Building a system of roads
400
The codification of laws was this ruler's most significant contribution
Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian Empire
400
Name jobs that people had in Ancient Mesopotamia besides being a soldier or scribe
Merchant
Artisan
Farmer
Priest
400
These people made up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
500
The rivers in this area were both helpful and dangerous to the people there. How were they helpful?
Silt
500
An or Anu was the highest god of the Mesopotamians who's role was to oversee this
He was the god of the sky and heaven and the keeper of the calendar and seasons.
500
This written language was carved into clay tablets by the ancient Mesopotamians
Cuneiform
500
Known for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states, he was the first person known to rule over an empire?
Sargon the Great (Sargon I)
500
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write?
Scribes
500
This type of government means rule by one, and the power was inherited or passed down.
monarchy
600
Cuneiform was written on _____________ using ____________ as a writing tool
clay tablets and stylus
600
Mesopotamian people made offerings to the gods (deities) Enki, Ninurta and Enlil for this purpose
for good weather and ample rain for their crops in their natural world
600
Cuneiform is based on an earlier, simpler form of writing that used _______?
Pictures.
These are called pictographs
600
This leader had the Hanging Garden of Babylon created while ruling the New Babylonian Empire
Nebuchadnezzar II
600
What was the name of the first civilization to develop in ancient Mesopotamia?
Sumer
600
This King of Persia conquered Babylonia in 539 B.C.
King Cyrus (or Cyrus the Great)
