The Land
The name of Mesopotamia that refers to its shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is an organized set of laws.
What is a code?
It enables easy movement from place to place.
What is the wheel?
a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is barter?
He led his people from Sumer to Canaan.
Who is Abraham?
Mesopotamia means this.
What is "the Land Between Two Rivers?"
This component of civilization involves laws.
What is the political?
It is an enormous,step like temple.
What is a ziggurat?
These craftsman created potterty, jewelry and other items to enrich the lives of the people
What are artisans?
These two peoples helped the Babylonians conquer the Assyrians.
Who ar the Chaldeans and the Medes?
Mesopotamian invented this method to supply water to its crops.
What is irrigation?
This set of laws was given to Moses by God.
What are the 10 Commandments?
Sumerian writing consisting of wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
These two resources helped the Phoenicians become very wealthy
What is purple dye and cedar wood
He went on a quest for immortality.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The two rivers that bordered Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
The stone pillar that laws and edicts were written on and placed in the city.
What is a stele?
This reed like tool was used for imprinting.
What is a stylus?
This simplified language was invented by the Phoenicians
What is an alphabet?
Nebuchadnezzar had this built, for this person (2 PART ANSWER)
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his favorite wife?
Since two mountain ranges surrounded the area, this geographic feature characterizes the northern part of Mesopotamia.
What are plateaus?
According to Hammurabi, this should happen to a woman who neglects her household duties.
What is get thrown in the river?
The Babylonians studied the stars to calculate the passage of time, which led to the invention of this.
What is a calendar?
These people, under the rule of Cyrus the Great, conquered the area, and Mesopotamia no longer existed as an empire.
Who are the Persians?
Ashurbanipal created the first one of these.
What is a library?