Key Terms
THIS PLACE CONSISTS OF A CITY AND ITS SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE.
WHAT IS A CITY-STATE?
HIS CODE LISTED 282 DIFFERENT LAWS, MANY OF WHICH WERE NOT FAIR TO LOWER CLASSES.
WHO IS HAMMURABI?
THE WEDGE SHAPES OF THIS FORM OF WRITING COME FROM THE REED STYLUS BEING PRESSED INTO THE CLAY TABLETS THEY WROTE ON.
WHAT IS CUNEIFORM?
THESE TWO BODIES OF WATER ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT TO ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA.
WHAT ARE THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS?
SUMERIAN KINGS WERE AT THE TOP OF THIS, A RANKING OF PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR CLASS.
WHAT IS SOCIAL HIERARCHY?
THIS IS THE BELIEF IN MORE THAN ONE GOD.
WHAT IS POLYTHEISM?
THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WERE IMPORTANT FIGURES IN MESOPOTAMIAN SOCIET SOLELY BECAUSE THEY COULD WRITE.
WHO WERE SCRIBES?
THE ALPHABET IS ACCREDITED TO THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE.
WHO ARE THE PHOENICIANS?
MESOPOTAMIA IS A GREEK WORD COMING FROM MESOS AND POTAMOS, MEANING THIS PHRASE IN ENGLISH.
WHAT IS "BETWEEN TWO RIVERS"?
SUMERIAN CITY-STATES DID THIS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM NEIGHBORING ATTACKS.
WHAT IS BUILD THICK WALLS?
THIS FERTILE SOIL WAS CARRIED BY THE RIVERS, ALLOWING EARLY PEOPLE TO BEGIN FARMING.
WHAT IS SILT?
THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WERE THE FIRST TO DEVELOP A CIVILIZATION AROUND THE YEAR 3000 BC.
WHO WERE THE SUMERIANS?
THIS ANCIENT STORY, FEATURING A GODLIKE KING ON A QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY, WAS THE OLDEST KNOWN WRITTEN STORY.
WHAT IS THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH?
MESOPOTAMIA IS MOSTLY LOCATED IN THIS MODERN DAY COUNTRY.
WHAT IS IRAQ?
KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS RULER OF THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE.
WHO WERE THE CHALDEANS?
THIS TERM, MEANING THAT PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO SEEK JOBS OTHER THAN FARMING, ALLOWED CIVILIZATIONS TO THRIVE.
WHAT IS DIVISION OF LABOR?
THIS RULER MADE THE HANGING GARDENS AND RULED THE CHALDEANS FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS.
WHO WAS NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
AN EPIC IS WRITTEN IN THIS STYLE.
WHAT IS A POEM?
THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE CONQUERED MOST OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT, PARTS OF EGYPT, AND WHAT NEARBY AREA?
WHAT IS ASIA MINOR?
THIS STRUCTURE WAS THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS CENTERS OF MESOPOTAMIA.
WHAT IS A ZIGGURAT?
THIS WAS DONE TO ANIMALS AND PLANTS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO IN ORDER TO USE THEM IN FARMING.
WHAT IS DOMESTICATE?
THIS MESOPOTAMIAN RULER WAS FOUND FLOATING IN A BASKET TRAVELING DOWN A RIVER.
WHO IS SARGON?
CUNEIFORM WRITING WAS FIRST USED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
WHAT IS KEEP BUSINESS RECORDS?
THE HITTITES CONQUERED THIS CIVILIZATION IN 1595 BC.
WHAT IS BABYLON?
WHAT IS 1792 BC?