Geography
Land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Group of traders traveling together
What is caravan?
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
Invented the wheel
Who are the Sumerians?
To tame an animal for human use
What is to domesticate?
Easternmost river in Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris?
Sumerian temple built for the gods
What is a ziggurat?
Belief in one God
What is monotheism?
Invented the wheel
Who are the Sumerians?
Name of the first written language
What is cuneiform?
Western most river in Mesopotamia?
What is the Euphrates River?
A written set of laws or rules
What is a code?
Stories about gods that helped explain peoples' beliefs
What is myth?
Invented the battering ram
Who are the Assyrians?
Occupation title of someone who writes down important information in ancient Sumer.
What is a scribe?
Region of Southwest Asia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Many territories and peoples controlled by one government
What is an empire?
Name of myth starring a half man/ half god and his friend Enkidu
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Became an important center of trade because of its location along main routes and roadways through Mesopotamia
What is Babylon?
First written set of laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Flooding rivers provided this for farming
What is fertile soil?
Someone with no permanent home
What is a nomad?
One way that people worshipped the gods was to create small ____________ that could be placed in a ziggurat to pray to the gods while the people were at work.
What is a statue?
Developed the idea of a.m. and p.m.
Who are the Chaldeans?
Drives a two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse. Often involved in warfare.
What is a charioteer?