Geography
Fertile land-area stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Nile River Valley
Fertile Crescent
The artificial application of water from one place to another
irrigation
Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek word that translates to:
The land between two rivers
Established by Sargon of Akkad
Akkadian Empire
The lowest level of ancient Mesopotamian society
slave class
A river that rhymes with Cyrus
Tigris
A Mesopotamian temple
ziggurat
One who was trained to write
Scribe
Hammurabi's kingdom centered in the city of Babylon
Babylonian Empire
Wedge-shaped writing
cuneiform
Babylon was located on the banks of this river
Euphrates
A barrier that people build across rivers or other bodies of water so they can store the water or move it to another location.
dam
The opposite of monotheism
polytheism
The empire of Nebuchadnezzar
Chaldean/Neo-Babylonian
Considered the oldest epic poem in human history
Epic of Gilgamesh
The climate of the Fertile Crescent
Dry and hot
An independent kingdom or state made up of a city and the surrounding lands it controls.
city-state
Most people in Mesopotamia worked in this field (no pun intended)
farming/agriculture
Largest of the empires of Mesopotamia
Assyrian Empire
Considered to be the oldest recorded law code in human history
Hammurabi's Code
Major body of water at the mouth of both the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
Persian Gulf
Rivers of the Fertile Crescent were important routes for:
trade
Each city-state had one of these patrons
gods/goddesses/deities
Region of southeastern Mesopotamia home to the earliest city-states
Sumer
Nebuchadnezzar built up his capital city which became well-known throughout the ancient world
Babylon