Rulers
I was a Babylonian King
Who is HAMMURABI?
I was the world's first civilization in North Africa.
What is Egypt?
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
One accomplishment from the Sumerians.
What is the Wheel?
The Egyptians wrote on this material.
What is Papyrus?
Unlike the Tigris and Euphrates, this river flooded on a predictable and annual cycle.
What is the Nile?
The reason for civilizations rising on the banks of rivers.
What is Fertile Soil?
A ruler in Babylon would write in what?
What is Cuneiform?
Mesopotamians created the first writing system. This writing system is called what?
What is cuneiform?
What is another name for Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer?
I am the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
Why did Mesopotamian leaders order walls to be built around their city-states?
What is from protection from invaders?
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
Finish this law : “If a man put out the eye of another man, his __________________.”
What is his eyes shall be put out?
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Geological features that protected Egypt from being attacked by foreign nations.
What is a desert and sea?
In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the ziggurats.
Who are priests?
Most people in the first city-states in Mesopotamia were _______
What are farmers?
What 2 rivers run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates??