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What is the name of the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia?
Tigris & Euphrates
The belief in many gods?
Polytheism
Why did Mesopotamians need to build walls around their villages?
Easy to invade
King who invented the oldest code of law?
Hammurabi (Ha - mur - ah - bee)
True/False: Mesopotamia composed of one city-state
False
Mesopotamia is sometimes Called "The _______ ________?
Fertile Crescent
What is the name of the temples built to Mesopotamian Gods?
Ziggurats
Name of written language created by Mesopotamians
Cuneiform
King of Neo-Babylonians, made it one of the richest cities in the world?
Nebuchadnezzar II
The way a civilization is organized, (think pyramid structure)
Social Structure
Mesopotamia is located in what modern day country?
Iraq
What does Mesopotamia translate to?
Land Between Two Rivers
Bronze, pottery wheel, wooden plows, sailboats, are inventions of which civilization?
Babylonian
Sumerian
Assyrian
Chaldean
Sumerian
Food Surplus
Building material in Mesopotamia
Clay
Mesopotamia extends from what two large bodies of water?
Mediterranean Sea to Persian Gulf
___________ is the process of building ditches to carry water from a river to fields to improve agriculture?
Irrigation
What is a tribute?
a payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender
Title of someone who's job it was to read and write?
Scribe
An Area in the Southern most part of Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared?
Sumer
+400 pts
Fine particles of rock that would clog canals?
Silt
______________ ______ was a list of laws created to help settle disputes?
Hammurabi's Code
Cuneiform is based on an earlier, simpler form of writing that used ___________?
Pictures / Pictographs
+500 pts
Who makes up the upper class of Mesopotamia
Kings and Priests
What made the Assyrian army so strong?
Weapons were made of Iron
+500
False
What system of writing was the first?
Cuniform
Why did Mesopotamians leave tributes to their Gods? Why try to appease them?
Believed gods had control over all aspects of their lives
Cuneiform was written on ________?
Clay tablets
What is a monarchy?
Government led by a single king/queen