Vocabulary
The name of the Sumerian writing
What is cuneiform?
Allowed people to travel across water, transport goods, and trade with other civilizations.
What is the Sailboat?
The city-states were ruled by.
Who are Kings?
The first known civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
Term describes people who move from place to place rather than settling in one area.
What is Nomads?
The Sumerian kings each controlled a political region
What were City-states?
Helped transport people and heavy objects over long distances in a shorter amount of time.
What is the wheel?
Hammurabi’s codes were the first written
What is code of law?
The people of Mesopotamia built these to prevent the floods from destroying their crops.
What are walls and canals?
The term for a prolonged period of reduced temperature and increased glaciation on Earth
What is the Ice Age?
The Assyrians demanded forced payment from the people they conquered.
What is Tribute?
Separated the soil to more easily plant seeds for growing crops.
What is the Plow?
It was considered one of the oldest stories in World History
Epic of Gilgamesh
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that translates to.
What is land between rivers?
Rapids in a river
What is a Delta?
A large region of rich farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
What is Fertile Crescent?
The first written language created by Sumerians
What is Cuneiform?
Present day countries does Assyria empire extend into
What is Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq?
Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers
What is the Euphrates and the Tigris?
Ruler of ancient Egypt
What is a Pharaoh?
The Sumerian people worshipped their gods in large, pyramid-shaped temples
What are Ziggurats?
Mixture of copper and tin that could be used to build better weapons and tools
What is Bronze?
The king of the Neo Babylonian empire
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
Method of supplying water to an area of land or crops
What is irrigation?
A form of written language that uses pictures and sound symbols to convey a message.
What is Hieroglyphics?