Inventions
First form of writing
Cuneiform
First set of Laws
Hammurabi's code
Rich soil deposited by the floods
Silt
The ruler of an Empire
Emperor/or monarch
God of the Sky
An
This practice controls the water supply for agriculture
irrigation
Empire
Meaning, Land between two rivers
Mesopotamia
A king/queen, where leadership is for life and the offspring inherent power
a long narrative poem
epic
Helped dig holes to plant seeds
Plow
Leader of the Akkadians
Sargon
Where the rivers of life and death pour into
Persian Gulf
Writers in Mesopotamia
Scribes
3 rivers of the Fertile Crescent
Tigris Euphrates and Nile
two Inventions that helped transportation
Wheel and Sail
Bottom of social hierarchy
Slaves
Located in the Southern Part of Mesopotamia, Contains major city states
Sumer
Hammurabi's Position
King/Emperor
Gilgamesh's City
Uruk
Most important ingredient in producing bronze
copper
The Spread of cultures to other lands
Cultural diffusion
Area in between the Tigris and Euphrates stretches all the way into the Nile, very good for farming
Fertile Crescent
Acted as the political and religious ruler of a City State
Priest King
Cuneiform provides the basis of this
Recorded History