Religion
The temple to worship in.
What is a ziggurat?
An advanced human society.
What is a civilization?
The two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Top of the social class pyramid.
What is the king?
Used to write cuneiform.
What is a stylus?
Believing in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
This made civilizations possible.
What is farming?
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Under the King in the social pyramid.
What are the priests?
Wrote cuneiform on.
What are clay tablets?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
The name of the mountains to the west of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
Came below the priests.
What are the scribes/merchants?
A collection of 282 laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code/Eye for an eye?
Supplying fresh water to farmlands.
What is irrigation?
The names of the deserts to the east of Mesopotamia.
What are the Syrian and Arabian deserts.
Bottom of the social pyramid.
What are slaves?
Three inventions of Mesopotamia.
What are Sailboat, soap, and wheel.
An organized system used to make laws.
What is government?
Fertile piece of land between two rivers.
What is fertile crescent?
Chose the King to rule.
What are the Gods?
Biggest military
Who are the Assyrians?