Geography
The other name for the area around Mesopotamia.
The Fertile Crescent
The way farmers got water to their crops from the rivers.
Irrigation
The civilization that created cuneiform.
The Sumerians
Another word for a ruler of a kingdom or empire.
Monarch
The word for having more than enough food.
Surplus
The names of the two rives that run through Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The system of words the Phoenician's created.
Alphabet
The civilization in which men made laws and women took care of children.
The Sumerians
He made the first set of laws.
Hammurabi
The belief in many gods.
Polytheism
The name of the substance that made the land in Mesopotamia fertile.
The tool used to leave a mark on a piece of art or property.
Cylinder seal
This civilization demanded heavy taxes and had harsh punishments if you did not pay.
The Assyrians
He made the first empire.
Sargon
These people could write.
Scribes
Three of the countries where the Phoenicians made colonies.
Egypt, Greece, Italy, Sicily, or Spain.
The large temple created by the Sumerians.
Ziggurat
The civilization that built a kingdom in Asian Minor (Turkey).
The Hittites
A famous king of Uruk.
Gilgamesh
The tool that made farming much easier.
Plow
The reason the Phoenicians became expert sailors.
The land route for trading was blocked my mountains.
The two main weapons the Assyrians used to conquer others.
Iron weapons and chariots.
This civilization used a kind of tree to trade.
The Phoenicians
The Chaldean king who created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar
The people in the middle of the Sumerian social hierarchy.
Craftspeople, merchants and traders.