MesoVocab
System of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
What is cuneiform?
What was Mesopotamia is now this modern country.
What is Iraq?
Mesopotamian civilization began because of this type of surplus.
What is food?
The world's first empire.
What is Akkadian?
Hammurabi was the king of this ancient city.
What is Babylon?
This practice diverts water from rivers to farmland.
What is irrigation?
This pyramid is often used to describe various social classes.
What is hierarchy?
This familiar phrase is the concept of punishments that fit the crime.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
This river is the eastern boundary of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
This geometric shape describes an ideal location for agriculture.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
An example of monumental architecture used for religious practice.
What is a ziggurat?
The Greek translation of the word "Mesopotamia."
What is "land between the rivers"?
The Babylonian Empire was governed by this set of rules.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Iron weapons were the cause of this empire's military success.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
This period of time followed the Neolithic Age.
What is the Bronze Age?
This religious belief would be familiar to ancient people in Greece and Rome, as well as Mesopotamia.
What is polytheism?
Sumerians invented writing for these two reasons (credit given for at least one).
What is keeping track of what a person owned?
What is trade records?
This invention permitted crops to be transported by water.
What is sail?
This privileged class enjoyed a social rank above all others except the king.
What is priests?
Sargon built his empire through these two methods.
What is by conquest and by agreement?
This term describes the beginning of an organized society on Earth.
What is Cradle of Civilization?
The demigod Gilgamesh is the main character in this type of grand story.
What is epic?
This tube decorated with carvings functioned as a way to identify a particular person.
What is cylinder seal?
This is the name of the first city-state.
What is Sumer?
The engineering methods of this Ancient Wonder of the World are still a mystery.
What is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?