Vocab 1
a picture symbol
What is a pictograph?
a person who performs religious ceremonies
What is a priest?
One of Uruk’s kings who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature
Who is Gilgamesh?
This physical feature made southern Mesopotamia ideal for farming
What is a flat plain between rivers?
This civilization wrote down laws
Who are the Babylonians?
referring to a city area
What is urban?
land with different territories and people under a single rule
What is an empire?
Leader of the Akkadian territory who brought all of Mesopotamia under Akkadian rule. He established the world’s first empire.
Who is Sargon?
The effect of this allowed Different workers to specialize in performing a particular job or task.
What is productive farming?
This civilization mastered ironworking to make the strongest weapons of the time
Who are the Hittites?
an organized society that functions within established geographic boundaries
What is civilization?
a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside
King of Babylon who eventually brought all of Mesopotamia into his empire, called the Babylonian Empire. Most famous for his code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This allowed the Mesopotamians to produce a surplus of food.
What is irrigation?
This civilization established a library containing legal, medical, religious, and literary texts
Who are the Assyrians?
a ruler of a kingdom or empire
What is a monarch?
the worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
The most famous Chaldean king who rebuilt the city of Babylon. His grand palace featured the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchanezzar?
Mesopotamians interacted with the environment to improve their society in these two ways.
What are creating building bricks from clay from the riverbanks and used irrigation to make grazing areas for cattle and sheep?
This civilization charted the positions of the stars
Who are the Chaldeans?
a writer
What is a scribe?
the world's first system of writing; developed by the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
This man's code allowed people to know the punishment for specific crimes.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Sumerians made many advancements what are 4 of these advancements?
-wheel
-sewers
-math based on the number 60 (time, months, circles)
-cuneiform
-cylinder seals
-plow
-sailboats
-clocks
-makeup
-glass jewelry
-bronze tools
Religion was important to this people because they believed their gods were responsible for natural events.
Who are the Sumerians?