Vocabulary
The land between two Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Clay made into a shape, often a vase.
What is Pottery?
Neo Babylonian Empires Greatest king from 605-562 B.C.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
The ancient Mesopotamian sun god.
Who is Utu?
The river in northern Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
An Independent nation that is one city.
What is a City-State?
A two-wheeled "Vehicle" in which a driver drove a team of animals.
What is a Chariot?
Last Great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, from 669-631 B.C.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
The god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
Who is Marduk?
The most common cereal crop in Mesopotamia.
What is Barley?
A Teired temple in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a Ziggurat?
Writing in the Mesopotamian empires, especially Sumer.
What is Cuneiform?
Born in 580 B.C. and the famous ruler of Persia.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The god of the moon in the Mesopotamian religions of Sumer.
Who is Sin?
First Civilization in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
The dispersion of something originally localized.
What is Diaspora?
A round object often used for pottery and transportation.
What is The Wheel?
King of the old Babylonian Empire, made a famous code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Sumerian god of water, knowledge, crafts, and creation.
Who is Enki?
The river in southern Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
The fertile area that stretched between the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
A tool to break and turn up farming grounds.
What is The Plow?
King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 745-727 B.C.
Who is Tiglath-Pileser III?
The divine personification of the sky, and King of the Gods.
Who is Anu?
The Mesopotamian city with the highest population.
What is Babylon?