Vocabulary
This refers to the curved area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the fertile crescent?
These people built levees and irrigation systems.
Who are the Sumerians?
This is the literal meaning of cuneiform.
What is "wedge-shaped?"
This was the king of the Babylonian Empire.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This refers to the city and surrounding land that it controlled.
What is a city-state?
There were a lot of features of Mesopotamian architecture, including: columns, arches, and this.
What are domes?
This is what the Mesopotamian calendar was based off of.
What is the moon?
This was the king of the Amorites who collected 282 laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
This area comes from the Greek word which means "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
This person excavated the ancient city of Ur.
Who is Sir Leonard Woolley?
These were the most famous works of art made by Mesopotamians.
What are cylinder seals?
This was an Amorite civilization.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
This is the reason that job specialization became possible.
What is food surplus?
The Sumerian people divided themselves into three of these.
What are social classes (upper, lower, and middle)?
The Sumerians' temple was also called this.
What is a ziggurat?
This was the first known empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
This term refers to a hill or mound made up of layered dirt and remains of a building.
What is a tell?
This group of people in Mesopotamia turned raw materials into finished products.
Who are artisans?
Sumerians would write these, long poems that tell the story of a hero.
What are epics?
This was the emperor of the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon I?
This was the system that was created to help the Sumerians when there was no rain.
What is irrigation?
These three things help to make farming a whole lot easier for the Sumerians.
What are the plow, yoke, and wheel?
Abbreviated as "c." or "ca.," this Latin phrase means "around."
What is circa?