Empires
This emperor is best known for creating the first set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Agriculture is more commonly known by this term.
What is farming?
This is what we call the exchange of valuable items.
What is trade?
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This epic mythological king sought immortality.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This empire held power in the 1700s BCE and made a comeback under a different emperor from 626 BCE to 539 BCE.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
This word is used to describe having more crops than are needed.
What is surplus?
What are seas and rivers?
What mountain range is located northwest of the Fertile Crescent?
What are the Taurus Mountains?
This early group of Mesopotamians were successful using agriculture to change their way of life.
Who were the Sumerians?
The Assyrians are known for inventing this powerful weapon designed to break through walls and doors.
What is the battering ram?
Agriculture allowed people to rely less on this strategy of finding food.
What is hunting and gathering?
Mesopotamians needed to trade for this item because they lived in a desert climate.
What is wood?
This is a mineral-rich mixture of rock and soil that gets carried by water.
What is silt?
Hammurabi's Code was the world's first written set of what?
What are laws?
King Sargon II ruled this empire after the fall of Sumer.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
What do we call the process of supplying land with water through a network of canals?
What is irrigation?
What is grain?
What two bodies of water is the Fertile Crescent located between?
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Because Mesopotamians used this, we know a lot about who they were and how they lived.
What is cuneiform?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are known as one of the # Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is seven?
Excess crops caused the Sumerians to practice this, meaning that people had time to specialize in new types of jobs.
What is the division of labor?
Babylonians would trade at markets known as what?
What are bazaars?
This geographic feature offered the Mesopotamians protection from attacks coming from the south, but it had disadvantages as well. What is the geographic feature and what is a disadvantage?
What is deserts which were hard to walk across due to heat and lack of water?
This is the name for a carved wooden or stone slab.
What is a stele?