Mesopotamian Geography/Vocab
This large sea is located to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the name for Mesopotamian writing.
What is Cuneiform?
Civilization known for shipbuilding and purple dye.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This leader created the first set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This leader was the leader of the Sumerians, and had an "epic" story written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
These two rivers make up the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is the term for believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This civilization was known for being violent warriors and their military technology.
Who are the Assyrians?
This Persian leader is known for his fairness.
Who is Cyrus?
Elite military group in Persian, where members who died were immediately replaced.
Who are the immortals?
Forced payment to conquerors.
What is tribute?
This is the system of watering crops through the digging of canals and creating man-made waterways.
What is irrigation?
Civilization that followed the Code of Hammurabi
Who are the Akkadians/Babylonians?
Persian leader who grew the Persian Empire to be the largest Empire up until that time.
What is the Library of Nineveh?
Meaning of Mesopotamia.
What is the Land Between Rivers?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
This civilization is known as the first civilization in history.
Who are the Sumerians?
Chaldean emperor who built the hanging gardens for his wife
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Monotheistic religion in Persia.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing.
What are civilizations?
This is the name of an urban area and the surrounding rural area, governed under one rule.
What is a City-State?
This civilization created the Hanging Gardens
Who were the Chaldeans?
The leader of the Akkadian Empire?
Who is Sargon?
Name for the area of Mesopotamia where civilizations grew.
What is the Fertile Crescent?