Geography
Mesopotamia is located in what region?
Middle East
A belief in many gods.
Polytheism
The first people to settle in Mesopotamia were who?
Sumerians
Babylon is often remembered for creating the first recorded law, ________________________________.
Hammurabis Code
Most of Mesopotamia is located in modern day
Iraq
Meaning "the land between rivers" located in the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent.
Mesopotamia
Massive religious temples built by the Sumerians.
Ziggurats
Which Sumerian invention helped with travel?
Wheel
A form of government where a single king or queen rules.
Monarchy
Political districts in which officials are chosen to govern and enforce the ruler's laws
Province
A region of the Middle East, that stretches in a large crescent shaped curve, from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
Fertile Crescent
Long poems that tell story’s of heroes.
Epic
The Sumerians used technology to _______________, or supply water to, their crops.
Irrigation
A city that has its own government and rules over its own territory.
City-state
Territories and groups of people from different lands under one single rule.
Empire
The Tigris and Euphrates river system runs into the
Persian Gulf
What is the famous Epic of Sumer called?
Epic of Gilgamesh
What was the first written language in Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
What phrase is famously used from Hammurabi's Code?
"An eye for an eye"
Mesopotamia is nicknamed the Cradle of __________________.
Civilization
What sea is located to the West of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mediterranean Sea
What is a kind of government where a god or deity is the supreme ruler?
Theocracy
The Sumerians created a number system based around the number...
Hammurabi's code is a set of ____________ laws.
282
Describe the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by listing at least 3 things these rivers provided the people of Mesopotamia.
Natural Resources, Trade , Travel