Vocab
a person skilled at making things by hand
What is an artisan?
Mesopotamia is locate on this continent
What is Asia?
Built the world's first empire
Who is Sargon?
A pyramid-shaped place of worship that means "mountaintop" is known as a
What is a ziggurat?
an extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger
What is famine?
especially fine and fertile soil; good for farming
What is silt?
This country today exists where Mesopotamia once was
What is Iraq?
Sargon had many achievements including:
A belief in many gods is known as
What is polytheism?
Name 2 forms of technology that Mesopotamians developed to improve farming
What are irrigation systems and the ox-driven plow?
the earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
Mesopotamia means
What is "the land between the rivers?"
became 6th King of Babylon
Who was Hammurabi?
Name 3 ways that Mesopotamians worshipped their gods.
What is building ziggurats, statues, feeding them, and paying a temple tax?
an administrative district of a larger empire or country
What is a province?
a tax paid or goods and services given in return for protection
What is a tribute?
Mesopotamia is located between these 2 rivers?
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
Accomplishments of Hammurabi include:
What is building straight roads, irrigation systems, temples, strong city walls, uniting the people of Babylon through the Code of Hammurabi?
City-states built these to protect themselves from intruders.
What were strong city walls?
Society was organized based on this
What is social class/social pyramid?
an agreement between nations to fight each other’s enemies; a partnership
What is an alliance?
These two bodies of water bordered Mesopotamia to the West and to the East?
What were the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Persian Gulf to the east?
There were 282 laws in the _______________________ that was displayed on a stela in the center of the Akkadian city-states.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Surplus in Mesopotamia led to these 4 things:
What were specialized workers, art, architecture, and trade?
City-states went to war for these 3 reasons:
What are to protect fertile land, natural resources, and trade routes?