Vocabulary
"The land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
What is the Wheel?
The elite writers of Mesopotamia
What are Scribes?
The first civilization to have laws
What is Mesopotamia?
A temple that Sumerians used to communicate with their gods.
What is a Ziggurat?
An area of fertile land in Mesopotamia where crops grew.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A useful Mesopotamian invention that contained a sundial and 60 divided lines.
What is a Clock?
The written language of Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
The first person to create laws
The maximum number of tiers that a ziggurat would have had.
What is 7 tiers?
People at the bottom of the hierarchy. Another word for servants.
Who are Slaves?
A Mesopotamian invention used to contain soldiers during warfare
What is a Chariot?
The writers used this item to write their words down
What is a Stylus?
The common penalty for breaking laws in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is Death?
The vocabulary word for the Sumerian's gods.
What are Deities?
An oven or furnace used to cook or dry anything necessary in Mesopotamia. Still used today for art.
What is a Kiln?
A Mesopotamian invention used to maintain crops and agriculture.
What is a Plow?
The writers wrote their words on this object made of clay
A political system without laws.
What is Anarchy?
The place that was believed to have contained the largest ziggurat.
What is Babylon?
One of two rivers (not the Tigris)
What is the Euphrates River?
A Mesopotamian invention used to understand astrology/astronomy.
What is a Star Tracker/star wheel?
The name of the number system that originated in Mesopotamia and uses base 60
What is the Babylonian Number System?
The king's phrase that describes equal punishment to someone who has harmed another.
What is "an eye for an eye?"
An event that happened within the shrines at the top of ziggurats. Involved an offering to the gods.
What are Sacrifices?