Maps
A river that flows from the Taurus Mountains through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq to the Persian Gulf.
Tigris River
Name at least four specialized jobs Sumerians held.
farmed, fished, herded, mined, traded, were priests, rulers, government officials, scribes, teachers, architects, mathematicians, scientists, sailors, or soldiers
Sumerians developed one of the earliest of these:
the writing system
The law given from God was known as _____.
The Mosaic law
Boys went to school to become __________.
scribes
A curved area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
Fertile Crescent
A person's role in society was reflected by his _______.
social class
Wedge shaped writing was known as:
cuneiform
This law gives special treatment to wealthy people.
Hammurabi's law
Mesopotamians believe that humans were created to _____________.
serve gods.
One of the greatest cities of the ancient world; beside the Euphrates River near present-day Baghdad.
Babylon
The religion Sumerians practiced
polytheism
The smallest unit of weight was called________.
barley-corn
This law comes directly from God.
Mosaic law
Mesopotamians worshipped the moon god called ____.
Nanna
The capital city of the Assyrian Empire; beside the Tigris River.
Nineveh
________ ruled the people, and _______ kept order.
Mesopotamians divided the year into these two seasons.
summer and winte
The _________________ instructs people how to worship God, but ____________________________ does not.
Mosaic law .......Hammurabi's Code
______ were stories written about Sumerian gods and military victories.
epics
The peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in what is present-day Turkey
Asia Minor
Sumerians built this because they thought it would link heaven and earth together.
The scientific study of the stars and heavenly bodies.
astronomy
______________________ forbids giving different consequences for social class citizens who commit crimes against lower class citizens.
Mosaic law
This poem describes the adventures of and eternal life of a legendary hero.
Epic of Gilgamesh