People
I was the ruler of the Babylon that was known for my system of rules.
Who is Hammurabi?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
The large temple towers that originated in Mesopotamia
What is a ziggaraut?
What the early mesopotamian economy was based upon.
What is farming?
I created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is King Nebbuchadnezzar?
The first writing system created by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
The current name of the land where Mesopotamia once was.
What is Iraq?
The meaning of Mesopotamia.
What is "the land between the rivers?"
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
I conquered Sumer and organized the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
This Mesopotamian invention changed the way land trade worked.
What is the wheel?
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
This name was given to the land that Mesopotamia was located because of its shape and rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Spent their days recording business documents onto clay tablets and keeping records.
What are scribes?
These Mesopotamian citizens were some of the few that could enter into the top of a ziggauraut.
Who are priests?
The process by which water was brought to the farm fields from the rivers.
What is irrigation?
This name was given to Mesopotamia because it was here that civilizations were first born.
What is the "Cradle of Civilization?"
A land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
What is an Empire?
The shape that cuneiform consisted of.
Triangles
This Mesopotamian rules has an epic written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This innovation allowed for the world's first civilizations.
What is farming?
Most people in the first city-states in Sumer were ______
What are farmers?
These two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The names of the modern day countries that make up the Fertile Crescent. (Name 3)
What are Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey?