Geography
The two rivers vital to the Fertile Crescent
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?
The definition of Polytheism.
What is the belief in many Gods?
The name of the writing system created in Sumer.
What is Cuneiform?
The form of government where 1 person rules a city-state and power is inherited through birth or marriage.
What is a monarchy?
A city and its surrounding farmland.
What is a city-state?
The name of the first written story.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The ____________ mountain range provided protection in the North from invaders.
What is the Zagros Mountain Range?
The name of mesopotamian temples.
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamian agricultural advancement needed to create the cart and the chariot.
The form of government in which multiple territories have been united under one ruler.
What is an empire?
Lowest ranked member of mesopotamian society.
What is a slave?
Mesopotamia's Nicknames
What is the "Cradle of Civilization"?
What is the "Land Between the Rivers"?
Mesopotamians believed their Kings to be considered ______________, part god + part man
What is a demigod?
Used by scribes to write in Cuneiform.
What are clay tablets?
The name of the man who created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon the Great?
When the rivers would flood they would deposit this and make the ground more fertile.
What is silt?
The agricultural invention used to dig/churn up the earth to make planting easier.
What is a plow?
The man known for writing the first written code of law to establish justice throughout his empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
Title of the person in charge of keeping records
What is a scribe?
The reason irrigation ditches, canals, and well were invented in Mesopotamia.
What are river floods and droughts?
Mesopotamians would bring offerings and animals sacrifices to their temples because they believed their gods controlled this.
What is nature?
What is Hammurabi's Code?