Geography
Mesopatamia is located between these 2 important rivers
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The name of this Ancient civilization means land between the 2 rivers.
What is Mesopatamia?
This is considered the world's first form of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
He conquered Sumer and other lands in Mesopatamia to create the world's first empire, known as the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon the Great?
Known as the belief in many gods/goddesses?
What is Polytheism?
The city states known as Akkad and Sumer were located along these 2 rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?
An advanced self governing city that also included surrounding lands and settlements.
What is a city-state?
This invention may be considered the best invention of all time. It is now used for machinery and transportation.
What is the wheel?
Complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing
What is civilization
90% of Mesopatamia's population consisted of this social class.
What is the middle class
The curved area of the Fertile Crescent extends from the Mediterranean Sea to this body of water?
What is the Persian Gulf?
Known as the most important building within a city state. It was huge and shaped like a pyramid.
What is a Ziggurat?
This invention made it easier to cultivate large areas of land
What is an ox drawn plow?
Whether fictional or not, this half man/ half god king, along with his hairy beast friend, Enkindu traveled throughout Mesopatamia doing heroic deeds.
Who is Gilgamesh?
10% of Mesopatamia's population consisted of this social class.
What is the Upper class
What continent is directly East of Mesopotamia?
What is Asia?
A group of different lands and people governed by one ruler.
What is an empire?
The Sumerians created a place-value systems of numbers based on what number?
60
a method of bringing water to crops
What is irrigation
Sumerians went to ziggurats for this purpose.
What is to visit religious shrines?
The region that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Sumerian society was organized by this. It was based on power and wealth.
What is social class?
This invention let Sumerians travel the open sea
What is the Sailboat
The calendar developed by the Sumerians was based on....
The cycles of the moon
Only a few people, mostly boys from wealthy families, learned how to read and write Cuneiform. Some would become record keepers know as.....
Scribes