Geography
land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This Mesopotamian invention helped them count the goods given and received?
What is math?
The ruler who established the first set of laws in Mesopotamia.
Who is Hammurabi ?
A temple for the gods was built in each one of these
What is a city-state?
The rivers that flowed around Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Sumerians wanted the gods to be this?
What is happy?
This Mesopotamian invention that consisted of simple pictures to represent objects
What is writing/cuneiform?
The most important people in the community.
Who were priests?
This animal was packed with cloth and barley to trade
What are donkeys?
The season when the river flooded and spread water and silt across the plain
What is spring?
Each Mesopotamian city had one of these.
What is a chief god?
This Mesopotamian invention allowed them to drop seeds automatically into the soil
What is a plow?
The city's primary lawmaker and judge.
Who were kings?
An invention that allowed Sumerians to trade better along the water
What is a sailboat?
The body of water that the rivers emptied into
What is the Persian Gulf?
A pyramid-shaped temple bulit for the god of the city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
This invention was used for irrigation, pottery making and milling.
What is the wheel?
A phrase Hammurabi's code is based on
What is an eye for an eye?
The social class that represents the smallest number in that group
Who were kings/priests?
The mountain ranges in northern Mesopotamia which fed the streams and rivers
What are the Taurus and Zagros mountain ranges?
Sumerians believed only these people could communicate with the gods.
Who were priests ?
This invention that was made up of mixed copper and tin
What is bronze?
They hired workers to build temples, roads, and canals
Who were kings?
This social class is made up of farmers and skilled workers
What is the middle class?