Geography
A city and the surrounding land/villages it controlled.
What is a city-state?
The name of the pyramid shaped temple used by the Sumerians.
What is ziggurat?
The lowest social class in Sumer.
What are slaves?
The first empire to rise to power in Mesopotamia.
What are the Akkadians?
This individual developed a unique code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The _____ Crescent.
What is fertile?
The reason Sumerians relied on their priests.
What is gain favor with the gods?
This group was important because they kept written records.
Who are the scribes?
The king who ruled during the height of the Chaldean empire.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
Sumerian farmers were the first to use these.
What are wheels?
One of the main city-states of Mesopotamia and home of Abraham.
What is Ur?
What is polytheism?
This class contains groups like farmers, fishermen and merchants.
What is the middle class?
This empire had a reputation for fierceness.
Who are the Assyrians?
The name of the head teacher in Mesopotamian education.
Who is the School Father?
The two rivers located on either side of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Those living in Mesopotamia believed earth came from this.
What is the sea?
A skilled craftsman.
What is an artisan?
The empire of the Amorites.
What is Babylonian?
This made job specialization possible for Sumerian farmers.
What is a food surplus?
The two seas that border Asia Minor.
What are the Mediterranean and Black Seas?
This group of people were descendants of Noah.
What are the Hittites?
The three things Sumerian slaves were allowed to do.
What is own property, go into business and eventually purchase freedom?
Mesopotamia began with this group.
Who are the Persians?
Tool used in record keeping and literature.
What is cuneiform?