Rulers
I was a Babylonian King who created a strict code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
The world's first ever civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
I was the leader of the first empire, Akkad.
Who was Sargon the Great?
The number that the Mesopotamian math system was based off of.
Who is 60?
The civilization led by King Hammurabi.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
A professional writer, usually wealthy boys.
What is a scribe?
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
A brutal civilization that was very war-like; the final civilization in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
An _______ is a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
What is an empire?
In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the ziggurats.
Who are priests?
Mesopotamians created the first writing system. That system is called what?
What is cuneiform?
Why was farming difficult in Mesopotamia?
What is dry weather, or little rain, or salty river water?
How did Mesopotamian kings justify their power to avoid revolts from the common people?
What is they said they were chosen by the gods?
Most people in the first city-states of Mesopotamia worked as _________.
What are farmers?
This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE with a surplus of food.
What is agriculture?
What impact did the creation of a food surplus have on Mesopotamia?
What is new jobs and new inventions, or food storage in ziggurats, or the invention of writing for taxes paid in food, or laws to manage farming?
In Greek, the word "Mesopotamia" means…
What is land between two rivers?