Geography & History
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates
The belief in many deities
Polytheism
The civilization that invented the wheel
Sumerians
A type of government with one ruler
Monarchy
The transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer groups to settled farming groups
Neolithic Revolution
A name for Mesopotamia referencing its environment favorable for growing crops
The belief in one deity
Monotheism
One of the earliest pieces of written literature
Epic of Gilgamesh
The first empire
Akkadian Empire
A social system in which men hold primary power
Patriarchy
The desert to the south of Mesopotamia
The Arabian Desert
Ziggurat
The civilization with the first professional military
Assyrians
One of the first legal codes
The Code of Hammurabi
The year of the earliest Mesopotamian currency
650 BCE
The group that defeated the Neo-Babylonians
Persians
"The holy city"
Jerusalem
The civilization known that invented one of the first alphabets
Phoenicians
A political organization in which one state dominates over another
Empire
The first civilization to develop banks
Babylonians
The civilization that destroyed the first temple in Jerusalem
Babylonians
The three Abrahamic religions
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The civilization that founded the library at Nineveh
Assyrians
A political structure in which religious authority and and government authority are seen as the same
Theocracy
The Babylonian word for enslaved people
Wardu