Mesopotamia Vocabulary
The geographical area in between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, also known as the "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
Hammurabi's code is around this many years old.
What is 4,000?
This is the world's first civilization.
What is Sumer?
This is a way to write things down and keep a record.
This is a hand-shaped clay dried in the sun.
What is bricks?
The business of farming, growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
The language written on the Stele.
What is Cuneiform?
This was the world's first major empire.
This is when a society has enough food to provide for everyone in its community and have extra to save or trade.
This is made from fermented barley with flavors like dates and wheat. the sun.
What is beer?
A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.
What is an empire?
This is where the Hammurabi's code Stele is displayed.
This is the first metropolis.
This divided society into different levels based on jobs, gender, class, age, ethnicity, etc.
What is social structure?
This showed the world as a flat disc surrounded by water.
What is maps?
The belief that there are many gods.
What is polytheism?
The main topic/s of Hammurabi's code laws.
What is agricultural and irrigation issues?
Assyrians used this to make body protection and weapons.
What is iron?
This is a set of beliefs or a form of worship that answers questions about human existence.
What is religion?
This is what helped Mesopotamian's navigate the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is technology?
This has three parts containing a prologue, laws and a epilogue.
What is Hammurabi's code?
The assyrian empire lasted for around this long.
What is three centuries?
This is ways to express yourself creatively.
What is Art?
This developed the sexagesimal system dividing our time into groups of 60.
What is time measurement?