Location
Mesopotamia is on this continent.
What is Asia?
A large arc of fertile farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Ensured a stable supply of water for crops and livestock.
What is an irrigation system?
This invention helped people to move faster.
What is the wheel?
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What is Hammurabi's code?
These two rivers create the boarders of Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigers Rivers?
Worshiping many gods.
What is Polytheism?
Spears, axes, bows and arrows.
What were the weapons used by Mesopotamian s to hunt?
Allowed armies to move quickly around the battlefield.
What are chariots?
Sumerians believed their gods needed to be ________________ and ________________.
What is worshiped and pleased?
The large body of water that is northwest of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The earliest and largest city of Mesopotamia.
What is the city-state of Ur?
Because of this, farming wasn't easy even thought there was fertile land.
What is flooding?
A set of letters that can be combined to form words, still used today.
What is the alphabet?
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
A giant temple dedicated to the moon god nanna and his wife nigel dominated in this city.
What is Ur?
Impressive buildings in Sumer that some architects added columns to make them more attractive.
What is a ziggart?
Cut sandstone blocks and mud bricks were used to make these.
What are houses?
The main method of transportation that people used to move around for trading.
What are ships?
Made up of a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
The name of the Assyrian capitol.
What is Nineveh?
Sumerians used this to keep business records.
What is cuneiform?
Trade was important because Mesopotamia had very little of this.
What are natural resources?
In the 1200s B.C. the Assyrians from northern Mesopotamia briefly gained control of this place.
What is Babylon?
Had two-story homes with many as a dozen rooms.
What are rich Sumerians?