Geography
Culture
Vocabulary
Misc. 1
Misc. 2
100
What they used to control the rivers flow
What is canal?
100
The belief of many gods
What is polytheism?
100
long poems that tell the story of a hero
What are epics?
100
Who ruled after Hammurabi?
Who are the Hittites?
100
What did Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both do?
What is built up Babylon?
200
These two land features gave Mesopotamia its name
What are Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
The kind of home Sumerians lived in
What is one story houses?
200
A way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
200
The capital of Assyria
What is Ninevah?
200
Technology that was used by the Assyrians
What are Iron weapons and chariots?
300
The Sumerian plow is most like what modern day invention
What is the plow?
300
When cities first developed
What is between 3000 and 4000 BC?
300
A wheeled, horse drawn battle cart
What is chariot?
300
What Mesopotamia society was based on
What is Agriculture?
300
To have extra of something
What is surplus?
400
A mix of rich of soil and small rocks
What is silt?
400
One characteristic that gods possessed...
What is to be worshipped and pleased?
400
The world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
400
Mesopotamians believed that this was important
What is religion?
400
Why were ziggurats tall?
What is to show honor for the gods?
500
A large arc of fertile farmland
What is Fertile Crescent?
500
What was the role of the priest
What is to serve as a go between the gods and Sumerians?
500
A pyramid shaped temple
What is ziggurat?
500
The power that scribes had
What is the ability to read and write?
500
Why would the build a wall around the city-state?
What is to protect them from attack?
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