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What is the land called where Mesopotamia was built?
The Fertile Crescent
Name the Seas near the Mesopotamian civilizations, there are two.
Black Sea, and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the worlds first empire, and where was It located?
The Akkadians, they came from northern Mesopotamia.
The Worlds Longest surviving epic poem, which tells the adventures of the king of Uruk.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh.
Name the four Empires of Mesoptamia.
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian And Neo Babylonian
What where the two rivers that where in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates River
Over years, farming had an economic boom, or better known as an Surplus of what?
Food
With Empires, came levels of hierarchy, who was the social group with the most power in an empire?
The priest, people believed they could control flood rains.
The ruler of the Akkad who conquered the Sumerian city-states.
King Sargon of Akkad
Who came first? The Neo-babylonian? Or the Babylonians?
The Babylonians (hint; "Neo" is Greek for "New")
The Tigris an Euphrates often flooded, bringing this vital resources the ensure farming succeed,
Mud or Silt.
The Surplus of food helped people to stop the practice of hunting and Gathering, which led to what type of settlements?
Permanent Settlement
The mud temples built for worshipping gods.
Ziggurat.
This famous Babylonian king wrote down strict laws of code, famously consisting, "Eye for an Eye"
Hammurabi
This famous neo-babylonian king was famous for building what structure?
Two answers,
King Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife.
When flooding become to much, the Mesopotamians built these inventions as solutions.
Dams and Levees controlled, and helped irrigate the farming plots.
Mesopotamia climate consisted of what weathers?
hot, dry summers, and short mild winters.
Who invented the first type of writing, and what was it called?
The Sumerians invented cuniform. a type of writing on a clay tablet to make symbols
The iron working Military empire that conquered mesoptamia using extreme tactics,(Came after the Akkad had fallen.
The assyrians
What caused the Fall of the Assyrian empire?
Many artifacts where found near this body of water, known as the ----- Gulf.
Persian Gulf
What seasons did the rain come in Mesopotamia?
The cool winter months
The elite level of writers who where trained exclusively. Many of the few who were taught to read and write.
Scribes
The standard Economic system People used before the invention of coins,
The Barter and Trade System.
The practice of worshipping many gods is known as what?
Polytheism, "Poly" means many