Location
Modern country location of Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
King responsible for first written law, known as golden rule, 282 laws governing the way of life.
What is Hammurabi?
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The Phoenicians developed a system of letters and symbols, where each one had a sound.
Alphabet
This was invented to help get the fields ready for planting.
What is the plow?
Greek word for "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
What is Currency?
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Term that refers to the ability to tame plants and animals.
What is Domestication?
These helped to control the water from the rivers to irrigate crops.
What are canals and ditches?
Name the 2 major rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Citizens pay these to the government in return for protection and services that make the lives of the people better.
What are tributes/taxes.
Built as temples to worship the gods
What are ziggurats?
The Phoenicians became masters at _______________, or the the art of steering a ship from place to place.
What is navigation.
People with no single, settled homeland.
What are nomads?
The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as this.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
A professional writer in the ancient world.
What is a scribe?
This King, who had a poem written about him, was initially very upset because he discovered that he was a mortal.
Gilgamesh?
This is the name for the wedge shaped writing of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Agriculture allowed people to gather and live permanently causing this first to develop.
What is civilization?
Body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates both flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf
The term used to describe a city with an independent government.
What is a city-state?
This religion was popular during the Persian Empire, and was monotheistic.
Zoroastrianism
A carved stone slab or pillar that stands on its end.
Stele
Term that refers to extra goods that can be bought and sold.
What is surplus?