Geography & Environment
The name Mesopotamia means "land between two ______."
What are rivers?
This invention made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots.
What is the wheel?
In Sumer, who had the responsibilities of leading the army, enforcing laws, and collecting taxes?
Who is the king?
A social structure is defined as this.
What is the way a civilization is organized?
This empire, led by Sargon, was the world’s first empire and used steles to record its victories.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
Sumerians built levees beside rivers to prevent these natural disasters.
What are floods?
This invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings.
What is the arch?
Scribes were important in Sumerian government mainly because they did this.
What is write down the laws?
Using natural resources, Sumerians built city walls out of this material.
What are bricks made of mud?
The Akkadians are known for these achievements: strong military tactics, political strategies, and these carved stone monuments.
What are steles?
Sumerians built moats around their cities for this purpose.
What is protection from attack?
The Sumerian invention that most affected the food supply.
What is the plow?
This Babylonian king is best remembered for creating a written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built high on top of this structure.
What is the royal palace?
The Assyrian Empire is known for these realistic stone carvings that showed battles and daily life.
What are bas-reliefs?
The Assyrians built aqueducts mainly to do this.
What is bring water to the city?
Sumerians wrote using wedge-shaped symbols called cuneiform. They used this tool to make the marks.
What is a wedge-shaped stylus?
One of Hammurabi’s laws said that if a builder’s house collapsed and killed the owner, this would happen to the builder.
What is he would be put to death?
The people of Sumer constructed moats around their cities for this purpose.
What is protection from attack?
The Assyrians invented new weapons and techniques such as these tools and machines used in siege warfare.
What are battering rams and moveable towers?
Nebuchadnezzar built two walls, towers, and a moat around Babylon for this reason.
What is to protect the city from attacks?
The Akkadians carved images and writing into these stone monuments to record important events.
What are steles?
A major problem faced by all four Mesopotamian empires was this.
What is controlling such a large area?
Sumerians built ziggurats for this reason.
What is to honor their gods or serve as temples?
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?