Geography
A type of religious temple found in Mesopotamia.
temple or ziggurat
What is a ziggurat?
An earthen dam.
a waterfall or a dike
What is a dike?
The longest river in Mesopotamia. It is the river to the west.
Tigris of Euphrates
What is the Euphrates?
Producing more food that is needed to survive is a _____________.
What is surplus?
The area fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the ___________.
Fertile Crescent or fertile land
What is Fertile Crescent?
Wedge-shaped letters on soft clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The dude who parted the Red Sea.
Who is Moses?
The Lydians became the first civilization to use _______ as a form of trade.
What is coined money?
The Tigris and Euphrates dropped ___________, a rich mixture of rocks and soil, on the land after they flooded.
Loess or silt
What is silt?
A person in Sumeria whose job it was to write.
What is a scribe?
The growing of plants for the purpose of farming.
What is agriculture?
The first known conqueror of all of Mesopotamia.
What is Sargon (the Conqueror)?
Farmers in Mesopotamia got water for their fields by what innovation?
Shadoof or irrigation
What is irrigation?
A type of government with a king or queen.
monarchy or a democracy
What is a monarchy?
In Mesopotamia, a city and all the farmland surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
These people ruled Mesopotamia fiercely after the fall of Hammurabi.
Who are the Assyrians?