Vocabulary
wedge-shaped characters, as were many languages of Sumerian and Babylonian.
What is Cuneiform?
_______ stepped tower with a temple at the very top for priests
What is pyramidal?
A city-state is an independent city surrounded by _______
What is farmland?
What land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
What is the Euphrates and Tigris River?
what is polytheism?
Most ziggurat included ______ levels, with some of the largest having 7 levels.
What is 4-5?
Babylon King
Who is Sargon?
Mesopotamians built canals for
what is to protect house from floods and irrigate their fields?
a belief in one god
What is monotheism?
Hundreds and thousands of bricks were needed for only _____ ziggurat
What is one?
Mesopotamia's place of worship
What is a ziggurat?
Why was silt very important
What is to allow fertile land for more crops and trade with surplus?
the land between rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Ziggurats were built ________ with the intention of connecting the heavens and the earth
What is tall?
What is Hammurabi's code of law?
Religious practices and beliefs
What is polytheistic?
collection of 282written laws that set punishments to meet the requirements of justice
What is Hammurabi's code?
The ziggurats was always built with a core of _______ and exterior covered with _______
What is mud brick and baked brick?
Written language of Sumer
Technology of the Sumerians
What is cuneiform, the wheel, plow and leeves?