The land between the two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
A person who is chosen by an emperor to rule over a province or land under his control.
What is a governor?
System of Sumerian writing.
What is cuneiform?
The name given to the land that was great for growing crops that stretches in a curved shape from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean coast.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
First system of laws
Who are the Babylonians?
Fertile particles found in the river that when left behind make the soil good for farming.
What is silt?
Important people in the social pyramid in ancient society who were supposed to communicate with the gods.
Who are priests?
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 with other cultures and rules them, he now controls an ________________.
What is an empire?
In this religion begun by a Mesopotamian named Abraham that started in ancient times but is still practiced today, people pray in a synagogue and the leader is called a rabbi.
What is Judaism?
Used a common currency.
Who are the Persians?
The region of the world that Mesopotamia is located on.
What is the Middle East?
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Who are the Phoenicians?