Location
Modern day Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
Instituted a code of laws
Who is Hummurabi?
Professional writers in Sumer
What are Scribes
Used to water farm land
What are irrigation systems?
Babylon, Sumer, and Assyria
What are Mesopotamian civilizations?
Rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Introduced dynasties
Who is Sargon?
Pyramid shaped temple in Mesopotamia
What is a Ziggurat?
First written code of laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Believing in more than one god
What is polytheism?
Land between Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Allowed people to keep their customs and traditions
Who is Cyrus the Great?
A city and separate, independent state
What is a city-state?
Process that led to food surplus without hunting
What is agriculture or farming?
Method that subsequently spread ideas quickly throughout the region
What is trading?
Cradle of Civilization
What is Mesopotamia
Wanted to be immortal
Who is Gilgamesh?
Ancient Sumerian form of writing
What is Cuneiform?
Accomplishments of Chaldean astronomers
What are charting stars and planets, 7 day week, phases of the moon, and sun-dial?
Many territories and people controlled by one government
What is an empire?
Greek for "between the rivers"
Mesopotamia
Known for military strength and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II
Link between Sumerians and gods
Who are priests?
Contributing to transportation
What is the wheel or sailboat?
A traditional story or legend
What is a myth?