Mesopotamian Geography
These two rivers make up the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This civilization is known as the first civilization in history.
Who are the Sumerians?
This is the name of an urban area and the surrounding rural area, governed under one rule.
What is a City-State?
This leader created the first set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This Flood story tells of a man named Noah and his family taking animals on to an ark to be safe from a world flood.
What is the Monotheistic (Christian/Muslim/Jewish) flood story?
Mesopotamia is located in this modern country.
This civilization was known for being violent warriors and their military technology.
Who are the Assyrians?
This is the term for believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This leader was the leader of the Sumerians, and had an "epic" story written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This flood story tells of 1000 carpenters making an island dirty and half of them dying, while half were protected by the gods?
What is the Buddhist flood story?
This mountain range is located to the east of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
This civilization was split into two different time periods, with two very famous leaders.
Who were the Babylonians?
This is the system of watering crops through the digging of canals and creating man-made waterways.
What is irrigation?
This leader was one of the leaders of Assyria.
Who is Assurbanipal or Sennacherib?
This is the name of the Israelite king who, according to the story in 1 Kings, was protected by an angel from the Assyrian invasion.
Who is Hezekiah?
This large sea is located to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This civilization created the Hanging Gardens
Who were the Chaldeans?
This is the name for Mesopotamian writing.
What is Cuneiform?
This leader led the new Babylonian empire, creating the hanging gardens for his wife.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar? (chocolate bunny man)
This flood story speaks of a god, Enlil, who is very upset that Ea helps some humans survive the great flood.
What is the Babylonian Flood story?
This desert is located to the south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Syrian Desert?
This civilization was the first to believe in one God instead of many gods.
Who were the Israelites?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
The leader of the Akkadian Empire?
Who is Sargon?
This flood story tells of a giant fish god that the humans tie a rope to so that there boat stays safe from the flooding.
What is the Hindu flood story?