Vocab
To train wild animals or plants to be useful to humans.
What is domestication?
The first civilization.
What was Sumer?
Mesopotamia was located in ____ goegraphical feature.
What is the fertile crescent?
The Assyrian empire was able to conquer other city-states because of this material.
What is iron?
Mesopotamians created this method to bring water to their crops.
What was irrigation?
A crafts person.
What is artisan?
This person wrote the first set of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Where was Sumer located?
This empire lasted over 3 centuries.
What is Assyria?
Civilizations in Mesopotamia often fought over this necessity.
What is food?
An ancient Mesopotamian temple located in the center of a city-state
What is a ziggurat?
The first super hero, he wanted eternal life.
What was Gilgamesh?
They flowed from the Taurus Mountains.
Where did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow from?
____, _____, and ____ were all empires in Mesopotamia.
What was Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria?
This is how a city state became an empire.
What is conquering?
To stage a military blockage/attack and force surender.
What does siege mean?
Pictographs
What was the first form of writing?
Mesopotamia was located in present day _____ and ____ (countries)
What was located in Iraq and Turkey?
This Mesopotamian empire was the first metropolis.
What was Babylonia?
These are the 7 traits of a civilization.
What is writing, religion, social structure, government, stable food supply, art, and technology?
The belief that there are a lot of gods.
What is polytheism?
Sumer and Elam fought the first war, when did they fight the war.
The first war fought in Mesopotamia was fought in 2700 B.C.E between Sumer and Elam.
Babylonia was famous for these gardens.
Where was the hanging gardens said to be?
This empire had the first enslaved people.
What is Sumer?
These two things are some of the greatest things made by Mesopotamia?
What was the wheel and the arch?