Vocabulary
This land stretched from Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent
Land between two rivers in Greek
Mesopotamia
Name 3 inventions of Mesopotamia
Wheel
Sail
Plow
City-State located in Southern Mesopotamia?
Sumer
What is the worship of one God called?
Monotheism
Mesopotamia is called the land between two rivers and what else?
Cradle of Civilizations
Rivers that surround Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
The Sumerians also developed ___________, the oldest system of writing invented by humankind.
Cuneiform
________________ is located in modern-day Israel near the Mediterranean Sea
Jerusalem
One of the oldest writing collections is the _________________, which many historians believe is the earliest work of great literature left in the world.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Where did farming first start?
Southwest Asia
Body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates flow into
Persian Gulf
Who created the world's first empire?
Sargon
The body of water East of Egypt
_____________is made up of 282 laws and includes the famous phrase of "an eye for an eye."
Code of Hammurabi
Age when people followed animal herds for food (nomads)
Paleolithic Age
River that flows South to North in Egypt
Nile River
Who created the world's first legal system?
The body of water located North of Asia Minor
Black Sea
The Sumerians used this technique to get water to their crops.
Irrigation
Age when people began to farm and settled in one place
Neolithic Age
Mountains to the East of the Tigris River
What is the worship of many gods called?
Polytheism
Body of water where Sicily and Crete are located
Mediterranean Sea
He created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to honor his wife.
Nebuchadnezzar