Social Classes & Inventions
Who was in the upper class of Mesopotamia?
Who are kings and priests?
I was the world's first empire builder and emperor of Akkad.
Who was Sargon I?
What are the TWO names of the Mesopotamian rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The main structure in Mesopotamian cities:
What is a ziggurat?
These people were in the lowest class in Mesopotamia:
Who are slaves?
Before people settled in Mesopotamia, what were they?
Who are nomads?
This empire tried to hide its iron from ore technology.
Who were the Hittites?
Mesopotamians watered their crops by..
What is developing an irrigation system?
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
Most people in the first city-states had this job:
What are farmers?
Mesopotamia is located in what modern day country?
What is Iraq?
A _______ is a group of nations or peoples ruled over by a emperor.
What is an empire?
I set up the first set of laws in Mesopotamia
Who was Hammarabi?
Why is the Fertile Crescent call the "crossroads of the world"
What is it commands access to three continents, Asia, Africa and Europe
This is a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. (The Greeks would have the most famous)
What is a city-state?
I am the founder of one of the world's first religion in Persia.
Who is Zoroaster
This was a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 10,000 BCE?
What is the Neolithic Revolution (Agriculture)
(name) Six elements of a civilization
What are cities, religions, social classes, arts and architecture, public works, jobs, governments, language (writing)
What are two reasons why the Mesopotamians chose to develop their civilization where they did?
What is the fertile soil and immediate access to water?
Name the two most known leaders of the Persian Empire
Who was Darius I and Cyrus the Great?