A ziggurat is a place where people would go to worship to the gods and goddesses. It looked like a flat pyramid and was located in the middle of the city.
100
How did Hammurabi control Babylon/Mesopotamia?
He made a dam to block the water if any one disobeyed him. In other words he controlled the water supply.
100
___________ means the land between the rivers.
Mesopotamia
100
How did farmers alter the land?
By creating irrigation canals & levees.
200
What is polytheism?
Belief in many gods and godesses
200
What were the gate walls made out of?
Mudbrick
200
Name a way that the wheel helped Sumerian life.
Made transportation faster, easier, and toke more loads.
It helped in the war and for fighting purposes.(power)
The wheel also went farther distances
200
Cuneiform is one of the _________ writing systems
Earliest
200
How did irrigation canals help farmers?
Brought water close to their farms.
300
What is a covenant?
A special agreement
300
Describe a Sumerian city.
mud-brick walls, kings palace, & ziggurat all must be included
300
Who were the main 3 kings?
Gilgamesh
Sargon
Hammurabi
300
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers ended at the_________ ____.
The Persian Gulf.
300
How did levees help farmers?
Blocked water floods.
400
What was a writer called then?
A scribe
400
About how many (cuneiform) symbols did they have?
500
400
Bonus: What was the main city of Mesopotamia?
DOUBLE