Monuments
City business and economic (money/trade) transactions were carried out here.
What is in the temples?
Mesopotamia was settled between two rivers because their floods created this, which was needed for survival.
What is good farmland?
He encouraged others to leave their land and family and follow him to believe in only one God.
Who was Abraham?
Mesopotamian writing is called this.
What is cuniform?
This person was in charge of a Mesopotamian city.
What is the King?
Tall monuments built to bring them closer to their gods.
What are ziggurats?
Small mineral particles that are deposited by rivers, mixed soil, sand and clay, which make good farmland is called -
What is silt?
He tolerated the customs of those he conquered.
Why was Cyrus? (Cyrus the Second or Cyrus the Great)
Egyptian hieroglyphics and Mesopotamian writing use this style of writing.
What are pictures?
These people were at the top of their social classes.
Who were priests and rulers?
Monuments were built for the many gods they worshipped. The word for belief in many gods is -
What is polytheistic?
Early civilizations began in this type of land
What is river valleys?
He ruled over Babylon at its height of power and influence, about 605 - 561 BCE
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
The oldest known example of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
These people were at the bottom of the social classes and belonged to the temple or to other people.
Who were the slaves?
The bottom of a ziggurat is shaped like this.
What is a pyramid?
Because of their geography they had a surplus of this (which meant some people could do other types of work).
What are crops?
He was the leader of the Persian Empire at the end of Mesopotamia.
Who was Zoroaster?
What is the stylus?
Landowners and merchants, they were near the top of the social pyramid.
Who were the Freement?
This was on the top of the ziggurat.
What is a temple?
Mesopotamia was settled between these two rivers.
What were the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Beginning about 2334 BCE, he was the king of the city of Kish and ruled all of Sumer.
Who was Sargon?
The earliest examples of written law.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Near the bottom of the social pyramid, they didn't own their own land but could not be bought or sold.
Who were the Dependents?