Geography
The name of the top river in the fertile crescent.
What is the Tigris?
A government run by people who feel they are chosen by God or Gods is called this.
What is A theocracy
Who was the first king of Sumeria to unite AKKAD and Sumer?
Who was Sargon?
He wrote the first code of laws
Who was Hammurabi?
What was the first form of writing in Mesopotamia?
What is cuneiform
The name of the bottom river in the fertile crescent.
What is the Euphrates?
This was the God who Hammurabi claimed gave him his power and right to rule.
Who was Marduk?
What were the units of Sumerian civilizatons that became independent?
What were city-states.
What was the first code of laws called?
The code of Hammurabi.
How many symbols did the cuneiform alphabet have?
What is 1200 symbols?
The name of the body of water the rivers of the fertile crescent flow out of.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This is what people who worship many Gods are called.
What is Polytheistic?
What was a society called where men held all of the power?
What is patriarchal?
Who had the most power under Mesopotamian law?
Who were the men.
What did people use to write on in the time of Mesopotamian rule that are today held in famous museums
What are Steles
The type of soil that washed up from the bottom of the rivers of the Fertile Crescent when it flooded.
What is silt?
The temples built to honor the gods.
What are Ziggurats?
How long in years did Hammurabi rule?
What is 42 years.
Each city-state was independent, raised their own crops, and had its own ______________________ to run the town.
What is government?
What was the tool used to write on clay tablets in the style of cuneiform?
What is a stylus?
We call the area of the Fertile Crescent this today?
What is the Middle East?
Each city-state claimed their own ___________.
What are Gods?
The Akkadians and Babylonians belonged to this, larger group.
Who were the Semites?
A thief often had to pay this much back if he was caught.
What is 10 times?
This is the meaning of cuneiform.
What is wedge?