Artistic and Literary Works
This term is used to describe temples in Mesopotamia built using a complicated mathematical model.
What are ziggurats?
Mesopotamian cities built these in order to protect themselves from external enemies.
What are walls?
Language and writing, buildings, time, trade, wheels and military technology.
What is new technology in mesopotainia?
Sumerian population wrote on this material
what was clay used for?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This writing system was used in Mesopotamia after 3000BCE.
What is cuneiform?
Most people in Mesopotamian cities lived in these types of houses.
What are mud houses?
In the 4th millennium they created the wheel by inserting rotating axles into solid discs of this material.
What is wood?
Sumerian population wrote on clay with these objects
What were triangular shaped tools used for?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Palaces in early Mesopotamia were designed for these people.
Who are royal families?
The city that is considered to be the oldest in Mesopotamia.
What is Uruk?
Buildings were constructed of this material?
What is mud, brick and tile ?
only these people knew how to write
Who were priests and officials?
I created 282 laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This fine art was associated with religious cults most often.
What is hominoid figurines?
This city made their walls 40 feet high.
What is Babylon?
They started writing on ________
In order to keep records.
What is clay tablets ?
Writing was used for this purpose
How did Sumerians keep track of sources and groceries?
This civilization was ruled by Hammurabi?
What is Babylon?
Most patterns on Mesopotamian pottery were adopted from this culture.
What is Iranian culture?
A unique form of housing created by the ancestral Puebloans.
What are cliff dwellings?
They _______ With Greece, Egypt, Persia and India.
What is trade?
True or False: Sumerian writing emerged in 3300 b.c.e
True
Hammurabi's code was written on this
What is a massive black stone?
This literary work was the first ever to be made in Mesopotamia.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh Naru?
This empire fell due to WW1 and it is now known as modern-day Iraq.
What happened to the Ottoman Empire
They developed a complex…
What is a number system?
What are pictograms?
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?