Geography
The land between the two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris)
What is Mesopotamia?
Form of government with a single ruler, usually a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Belief in the existence of only 1 God.
What is monotheism?
Wheel
Who are the Sumerians?
People who trained to read and write.
Who are scribes?
The land great for growing that stretches in a crescent shape from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean coast.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
King of Babylon who developed a code of law based on the belief of eye for an eye.
Who is Hammurabi?
Belief in the existence of more then one god.
What is polytheism?
Hanging GArdens
Who are the Babylonians?
The modern day nation where Mesopotamia is located.
What is Iraq?
Fertile particles found in the river that when left behind make the soil good for farming.
What is silt?
A political division where a city controls itself and the surrounding area.
What is a city-state?
Important people in the social pyramid in ancient society that were able to communicate with the gods.
Who are priests?
What was the wheeled military cart called
What is a chariot
Legendary king who was part man and part god whose best friend was Enkidu.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Used by the people who lived in Mesopotamia to bring water to the crops on the farms.
What is irrigation?
When a king conquers other lands and rules them, he now controls a ________________.
What is a empire?
Each city state had one of these
What metal did they start making weapons out of that was much stronger than bronze
iron
The continent Mesopotamia is located on.
What is Asia?
What would happen if someone accused someone else of lying according to Hammurabis code?
put them in river and see if they float.
The building where the ancient Sumerians went to worship and where the priests worked.
What is a ziggurat?
Their system of counting was based on number. What was that number
12
The civilization that developed the worlds first written language, cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians?