Geography
Architechture
Religion
Writing
Government
100
Ancient Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers
What are the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
100
The center of Mesopotamian cities
What is a ziggurat?
100
The worship of many gods
What is polytheistic?
100
The first known form of writing is called this
What is cuneiform?
100
A famous code of laws during this time was written by this person
Who is King Hammurabi?
200
The reason people settled in this area
What is because the land is very fertile?
200
Built by King Nebuchadnizzer for his wife because she missed the greenery of her home.
What is The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
200
The main places of worship
What is the ziggurats (or temples)?
200
The utensil the Mesopotamians wrote with is called this
What is a stylus?
200
The code of laws written at this time had this many (a number) laws
What is 282?
300
Another name for fertile land
What is silt?
300
One activity carried out in the temples
What is (either) food distribution, worship, trading of goods
300
The power the kings received was believed to be given by them
What is the gods?
300
People wrote for a few main reasons. Give two
What is to keep records of trade, or to keep records of crops grown, or for personal expression?
300
King Hammurabi's code of laws was known as this
What is "an eye for an eye" theory?
400
The names of the two mountain ranges near Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Taurus and Zagros Mountains?
400
Ziggurats were built on older temples creating....
What is numerous levels and stairways
400
The Mesopotamians were polytheistic, if they worshiped only one god they would be this
What is monotheistic?
400
The name of the people who knew how to read and write are called
What is scribes?
400
One social class and an example from that class
What is: Upper class - free citizens, nobility, priests, rich, powerful; or Middle class - artisans, craftsmen, businessmen; or Lower class - slaves
500
Three reasons why living near a river would benefit ancient civilizations.
What are fresh water, trade/transportation, fertile land?
500
Ziggurats were believed to be the connection between....
What is heaven and earth (or gods/goddesses and the people)?
500
Mesopotamians believed these people interpreted the will of the gods
What are priests?
500
Writing was done on these
What is clay tablets?
500
The two party system started in Ancient Mesopotamia was the beginnings of a Democratic Government. This is called a _______________ system.
What is bicameral?
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