Systems in Civilization
A system that includes rulers and how they come to power.
What is politics?
The definition of "Mesopotamia" is this.
What is "land between two rivers"
What is polytheistic?
This metal was created in Ancient Sumeria.
What is bronze?
The first people to settle in Mesopotamia
Who are the Sumerians?
What is economics?
The moon-shaped area that Mesopotamia is located.
What is the fertile crescent.
Meaning the rulers were appointed by the gods and had divine authority.
What is theocracy?
An invention used for transportation that we still use today.
What is the wheel?
This empire shares a very similar name with a country that still exists today.
Who are the Assyrians?
What is social structure?
The two rivers Mesopotamia has settled around.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
These religious people (of both genders!) had most of the power in society.
Who are the priests and priestesses?
This invention helped people tell time using the sun.
What is the sundial?
The leader of the Akkadians?
Who is Sargon?
Describes a system that includes how values are transmitted.
What is education?
Mesopotamians used the rivers as trade routes to ___________ and ___________.
What are Europe and North Africa?
The god of justice, morality and truth.
Who is Shamesh?
The first form of written language
What is cuneiform?
This leader created the first set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Describes the way of life and how people live as a community.
What is culture?
Two effects as a result of Mesopotamia being vulnerable to attacks
What are: government, professional warfare, and the concept of empires.
The reason religion was created in Mesopotamia.
What is: to answer questions about life, to explain harsh living conditions, to feel like they have control
They created this to help them measure fields.
What is geometry?
A very powerful king dies, allowing the Assyrian empire to be taken over by which empire?
What is the Babylonian empire?