Rulers
This person united Sumer and Akkad and make the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
1,200 characters that gave the people a way to record stories and every day events.
What is cuneiform?
What are flash floods?
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
What are caravans?
These people had superior weapons, demanded tribute from the people they conquered, and learned to make iron from the Hittites.
Who is/was the Assyrian Army?
The story of a person who wanted eternal life.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
What was left behind after the flooding ended.
What is silt?
A long poem about a hero
What is an epic?
Forced payment to the Assyrians
What is tribute?
This person conquered Mesopotamia and added the land from the Amorites to his empire. He also made a set of new laws that were more fair than previous laws.
Who is/was Hammurabi?
The way the Mesopotamians learned to control flooding.
What is a lunar calendar?
Using canals and ditches to water crops is also known as ...
What is irrigation?
A pyramid structure where the gods are worshipped.
What is a ziggurat?
Protected less powerful people
What is Hammurabi's code?
This person made the Hanging Gardens, built new roads and canals, and charged high tribute and taxes to pay for it.
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar?
This invention made planting crops easier.
What is the plow?
A ridge or embankment built along the edges of a river or stream to prevent flooding
What is a levee?
Only wealthy boys could be this.
What is a scribe?
What are city states?
Who are the gods?
What is the sailboat?
Bordered by rivers on two sides.
What is Mesopotamia?
More than enough
What is a surplus?
Where the first library was built
What is Nineveh?