Geography
What is the name of the sea to the west of Mesopotamia?
Mediterranean Sea
What is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers called?
The Fertile Crescent / Mesopotamia
King Sargon conquered the city-states in Sumer, creating the very first ______
Empire
What did Hammurabi do with the laws to make sure everyone knew them?
Wrote them down and posted them around the empire
What resource made the Fertile Crescent good for farming?
Silt
What are the two rivers that surround the Fertile Crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates
What were ziggurats?
Temples to honor the gods
What did the scribes do in Sumer?
They were professional writers
What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The first piece of Mesopotamian literature
Why is the area around Mesopotamia called The Fertile Crescent?
The soil is fertile and the area is shaped like a crescent
What is the name of the body of water to the east of Mesopotamia?
Persian Gulf
What is cuneiform?
A system of writing that has lines and shapes
What was the oldest civilization in Mesopotamia?
Sumer
Why was Hammurabi's Code important?
It recorded laws for all to see
What were the religious beliefs of Sumer?
Polytheism
What is the name of the mountains to the northeast of Mesopotamia?
Zagros Mountains
What does Polytheism mean?
The belief in many gods
A place that is independent and has its own ruler and god is called ______
A city-state
What was the punishment for a physician's patient dying on the operating table?
The physician's hands would be cut off
Which of the following did the Sumerians NOT create:
Wheel, Sail, Paper, Plow
Paper
What is the name of the desert to the south of Mesopotamia?
Arabian Desert
What were pictographs?
A system of writing that looked like pictures
What city-state was Sargon from?
Akkad
What did the Babylonians write cuneiform on?
Clay tablets
How was an empire different from a city-state?
City-states had their own rulers; an empire only had one.