Vocabulary
Define Mesopotamia.
What is the land between two rivers?
How did Mesopotamians control the flow of water to their crops?
What is Irrigation?
What did most people do in Mesopotamia for work?
What is farming?
Used as transport by royalty and carried by a horse.
What is a chariot?
Also known as the Cradle of Civilization.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is the name of the main temple dedicated to Gods and Goddesses?
What is Ziggurat
What was the best crop the Mesopotamians grew?
What is wheat or barley?
Who created the laws?
Who is the King?
Invented to help to cross the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for fishing and to explore
What is a sailboat?
Referred to one of the first urban societies.
What is the Sumerians?
Arrowheads, daggers, and clubs are examples of what?
What is weapons?
Dried fish, wool, wheat, and metal goods are examples of which kind of goods in Mesopotamia?
What is exported goods?
Name the 3 social groups.
What is nobles, commoners, and the slaves?
Broken into 60 parts 3 times and divisible by 6.
What is time?
Was located between southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and modern day Iraq.
What is Babylonia
The Gods in Sumerians is called?
What is Dingir?
This was invented around 3000 B.C. and still used today.
What is the wheel?
This code included 282 rules, proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, and carved into a pillar.
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
Cuneiform is the first known form of this.
What is writing?
Referred to as The Most Powerful Empire in the World
What is Assyrians.
Houses were made from this material.
What is sun dried bricks?
Name 2 items that the people of Mesopotamia were known for.
What is metalwork, woolen textiles, pottery, and wheat.
This marked the start of a new month.
What is the waxing crescent moon?
The concept of this number was first created in Mesopotamia.
What is zero?
The first capital of Assyria.
What is Assur?