Vocabulary
The Land
Early Mesopotamia
Achievements
Leaders
100
a division of society by rank or class, often by wealth
What is a social hierarchy
100
Mesopotamia means this in Greek
What is land between the rivers?
100
Sumerians believed these beings could bring both good harvest and terrible floods
What are the gods?
100
a writing system made up of lines and wedges
What is cuneiform
100
This type of leader rules over a large area of land and many groups of people
What is an emperor?
200
a wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart
What is a chariot?
200
This city was located near present day Baghdad, Iraq
What is Babylon?
200
The first written law was call
What is Hammurabi's Code
200
This Phoenician invention spread quickly along trade routes
What is the alphabet
200
Babylon's most powerful monarch
Who is Hammurabi
300
a belief in many gods
What is polytheism
300
The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on this
What is it's military strength
300
Sumerian cities were dominated by these buildings made of terraces connected by ramps with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat
300
These two battles advancements were used by the Hittites and Assyrians
What are iron weapons and chariots
300
Hammurabi's code was important because it was
What is written down for all to see
400
a way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
400
These were built to control the flow of the river
What are canals?
400
The working class of Sumer included
What are farmers and laborers
400
Sumerians recorded their observations while practicing this
What is medicine?
400
City-states in Sargon's empire was similar to other Mesopotamian city-states because they all
What is fought with surrounding city-states
500
picture symbols used for written communication
What is pictographs?
500
City states often fought over land because
What is they needed farmland for crops?
500
This society was the first to build wheeled vehicles
What is Sumer?
500
This advancement in society allowed people in Mesopotamia to work as craftsmen
What is a division of labor
500
Both Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar did thid
What is build up Babylon
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