Mesopotamian Geography
What is the name of the two main rivers in Ancient Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
What helped Sumerian agriculture thrive?
What was the first great empire in Ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Akkadian Empire?
An especially fine and fertile soil.
What is silt?
Which ruler began the Akkadian Empire?
Who is Sargon the Great?
What geographic feature separates parts of the Akkadian Empire to the south?
What is the Syrian Desert?
Besides rivers, which geographical feature allowed for good farming in Mesopotamia?
What is fertile soil/land?
What brought about the fall of the empires of ancient Mesopotamia?
What are internal power struggles and war?
Sumerian society was organized by this.
What is social class?
How did Darius I improve life in the Persian Empire?
What is he constructed roads for trade and kept power peacefully?
What geographic feature borders the Akkadian Empire to the west?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
How did farming affect life in Mesopotamia?
What is farming allowed for a surplus of food, which helped city-states thrive?
What helped the Assyrians build an empire?
What is a strong military and weapons?
People who are skilled at making things by hand.
Who are artisans?
How did Hammurabi change Mesopotamian society?
What is he created the Code of Laws?
Where is Mesopotamia located? (modern-day country)
What is Iraq?
What farming invention in Mesopotamia made it easier to plant fields more quickly?
What is the plow?
Which Mesopotamian people sailed and traded across the Mediterranean?
Who are the Phoenicians?
Why did Sumerians go to ziggurats?
What is to worship and bring offerings to the gods?
Why did Nebuchadnezzar II build the Hanging Gardens?
What is to solidify the beauty of his city-state?
Where are the city-states of Sumer and Akkad located?
What is Mesopotamia or in between the Tigris and Euphrates?
What farming invention helped with the distribution of water for crops?
What is irrigation?
Why were the lands of Sumer and Akkad good places for city-states to develop?
What is they were close to the rivers and had access to fertile soil for farming?
Formal series of acts always performed in the same way, typically religious.
What are rituals?
This Persian King tried to defeat the Greeks in a long drawn-out war which eventually lead to the Persian's downfall.
Who is Xerxes?