Mesopotamia Geography
Mesopotamia Religion
Mesopotamia Achievements
Mesopotamia Politics
Mesopotamia Economy
Mesopotamia Social Structure
100
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia is between what two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates River
100
What pyramid-like structures were built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods?
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 a what?
City-state
100
Name one innovation from Ancient Mesopotamia that helped push civilization forward.
wheel, pottery, metalworking, irrigation, domesticated plants/animals.
100
The way a civilization is organized?
Social structure
200
The region Mesopotamia is in is called this because it has good farmland.
The Fertile Crescent
200
The Ancient Mesopotamians worshipped many gods. Believing in more than one god is called what?
Polytheism
200
Mesopotamians were able to grow more food than they needed. This is called a what?
surplus
200
What was the powerful, ruthless empire in that conquered Babylon using chariots, battering rams, and armored horses. Known for their military strength
Assyria
200
Name jobs that people had in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Merchant
Artisan
Farmer
Priest
200
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia? What people had the most power in this society?
Kings and Priests
300
Name any country that exists today that is in the same area where the Ancient Mesopotamians lived long ago.
Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.
300
In Ancient Mesopotamia, what does Polytheism mean?
The belief in multiple gods
300
One King of Babylon compiled laws into a system that is well known today as the world's first system of written laws. What is this system of laws called.
Hammurabi's code
300
Who created the oldest code of law?
Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
300
What is it called when goods or services are traded without the use of money?
barter
300
The dividing of society based on people's status or worth is known as
a social class or social structure
400
The rivers in this area were both helpful and dangerous to the people there. How were they dangerous?
They flooded unpredictably in the Spring and swept away villages and crops. The timing and paths of the floods were not the same each year.
400
What is the name of the epic poem from Mesopotamia that describes a heroic Babylonian King? It is one of the earliest written stories.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
400
This area didn't have many trees or stones, so they built using _______.
Clay bricks
400
The name of a state that contains several countries or territories is an
empire
400
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write
400
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what 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?
Irrigation for farming; travel for trade
500
Most ancient Mesopotamian rulers felt they got their right to rule from _____
the gods
500
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
Cuneiform
500
Who was the famous first king of the Akkadians? He is known for his conquests of Sumerian city-states and the first person to rule over an empire?
Sargon
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
Before the development of paper, cuneiform was mostly written on
clay tablets, walls
600
Name one way the gods were honored in Ancient Mesopotamia.
prayer, rituals, song, sacrifice, offerings, processions, etc
600
Cuneiform is develops after an earlier, simpler form of writing that used picture symbols. That early system is called ______
Pictographs.
600
This leader had the Hanging Garden of Babylon created
Nebuchadnezzar
600
What was the name of the first civilization to develop in ancient Mesopotamia?
Sumer
600
This King of this land conquered Neo-Babylonia in 539 B.C.
Persia
