Geography
The two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The way a civilization is organized is known as a _______ ________.
What is social structure?
Known as the first leader of a Mesopotamian empire.
Who is Sargon?
Sumerian villages had to rely on one another for this reason.
To maintain their irrigation system.
What is little rainfall? (other acceptable answers include: It was too dry)
This Sumerian belief about the king helped strengthen the social order.
What is he was supported by the gods?
The Akkadians used this to gain power of Sumer.
What is military strategy?
Each of these had its own ruler and farmland.
What is a city-state?
"Mesopotamia" is a Latin word meaning, "Land between two _________."
What are rivers?
priests, kings, nobles, government officials
Hammurabi is best known for this.
When a society has enough food to feed its people, it has a _______ _________ _________.
What is a stable food supply?
Mesopotamian villages were vulnerable to attacks from neighboring villages because of this.
What is there were no natural physical barriers to protect them.
Assyrian artisans were known for their two dimensional sculptures known as __________.
What are bas-reliefs?
This king from the Neo-Babylonian Empire restored the city of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This was a problem caused by Sumerian City-States being independent from one another.
What is they could not defend themselves against larger groups?