Geography
The two rivers that form the borders of ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Metal created by combining tin and copper.
What is bronze?
A belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
The earliest form of writing developed by Sumerians based on images of objects.
What are pictographs?
Widespread hunger.
What is famine?
An especially fine and fertile soil that is excellent for agriculture.
What is silt?
People skilled at making things by hand.
What are artisans?
A formal series of acts always performed in the same way.
What are rituals?
The advanced form of writing that evolved from pictographs.
What is Cuneiform?
A group of lands or people governed by one ruler.
What is an empire?
A human-made system for watering fields.
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia's first civilization.
What is Sumer?
A huge pyramid-shaped temple whose name translates to "mountaintop".
What is a ziggurat?
The world's oldest recorded story.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
In the lands he conquered, Sargon allowed the people to keep their local customs in exchange for a protection tax called this.
What is a tribute?
A tool, pulled by an ox, that broke up hard-baked summer soil and prepared it for planting.
What is a plow?
An advanced, self-governing area of settlements and surrounding lands.
What are city-states?
Another name for a god or goddess.
What is a deity?
The chief god of the Babylonians.
Who is Marduk?
The official language of Sargon's empire.
What is Akkadian?
An excess of food.
What is a surplus?
The system in which Sumerian society was organized based on power and wealth.
What is social class?
Small statues left in temples which were thought to pray on the behalf of the person it represented.
What are votives?
Tools used to carve Cuneiform symbols into wet clay tablets.
What are reeds or sharpened blades of grass?
The number of years Sargon ruled the Akkadian empire.
What is 56?