Geography
This is mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is SILT?
This terms is the opposite of rural or countryside areas.
Sumerians created the world's first writing system named...
What is CUNEIFORM?
This empire created the first written code of laws.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
This modern day country is where the land of Mesopotamia mostly existed in.
What is Iraq? (Syria also accepted)
The arc of rich, or fertile, farmland that Mesopotamia is a part of is called...
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Sumerians created a basic political unit that consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
What is a CITY-STATE?
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes like the "The Epic of Gilgamesh".
What are EPICS?
This empire ruled for almost 400 years.
What is the Kassite Empire?
What is "between the rivers"?
Human made water ways.
What are CANALS?
This Akkadian emperor extended his territory and took over Sumer. He had a permanent army and gained loyalty with his soldiers by eating with them each day.
Who was SARGON?
An important development was the wheel. The Sumerians were able to develop wheeled carts and ...
This empire was known for admiring and accepting Sumerian culture.
What was the Chaldean Empire?
When each worker in Mesopotamia specialized in a particular task or job it is called
What is DIVISION OF LABOR?
Sumerians worshiped many gods. This practice is called
What is POLYTHEISM?
The Sumerians had a number system based on the number 60 and divided a circle into 360 degrees. What other math related advances did they create?
What are calculating areas of rectangles/triangles OR dividing a year into 12 months.
This empire looted villages and burned crops as they conquered all of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
This was perhaps Sumer's most famous work of art and showed ownership of containers.
What is a cylinder seal?
The most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farming fertile and supplying water to an area of land was
Kings, Priests, Craftspeople/merchants/traders, Famers/Laborers and Slaves are the names of the division of society by rank or class in Mesopotamia called...
What is a SOCIAL HIERARCHY?
What are ZIGGURATS?
This empire was the first empire to master iron working and built the chariot to help them move quickly around battle fields.
She was Sargon's daughter and also a priestess who wrote hymns to the goddess Inanna.
Who was Enhedhuanna?