Geography
The two main rivers of the region that allow it to be so fertile.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The term for the temples of Mesopotamia with great stairs being the defining feature.
What is a Ziggurat?
The name of the language first developed in this region to be used for tracking crops.
What is cuneiform?
The term for a form of government that rules over a single city and the surrounding farmland.
What is a city-state?
The term for a societies social structure that determines "classes."
What is a hierarchy?
The name for this region due to its incredible nutrient-rich farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The law code of the Paleo-Babylonians that was believed to have been given by the gods.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The name of the famous ancient wonder developed by the Neo-Babylonians.
What is the Hanging Gardens?
The famous ruler of the Akkadian Empire who develops one of the first beuracracies.
Who is Sargon the Great?
These kinds of tools would replace the "bronze" of the Bronze Age.
What are iron tools?
The term for a religion that worships many gods.
What is polytheism?
This leader had a library of over 30,000 clay tablets.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
What the Assyrian Empire was most known for.
What is a vast military and chariots?
The kind of economy in Mesopotamia based primarily off of trading goods and services.
What is a traditional economy?
The term for when the amount of food/crops exceeds the population.
What is a surplus?
A government ruled by divine authority.
What is a theocracy?
The famous story that includes the character Enkidu and inspired many later mythic tales.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This leader would counquer the southern kingdom of Judah.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The Akkadian Empire developed these tools to allow for more accurate trade.
What are weights and measures?
The basic characteristics historians use to identify a civilization.
What are cities, government, religion, social structures, writing, and art?