Geography
what is the breakfast food that the fertile land was shaped like?
crescent=croissant
What is the name of the mud brick temples they built?
ziggurat
What is the name for the ruler of an empire?
emperor
What process did Ancient Mesopotamians invent to move water?
irrigation
What is the name for the area of land in Ancient Mesopotamia that allowed farmers to grow crops? The answer is two words.
fertile crescent
What is a high flat area of land?
plateau
These wedge shaped symbols were used in writing.
cuneiform
What was Sargon the Conquerors empire called?
Akkadian Empire
Ancient Mesopotamia had some of the first cities. City areas are called__________ areas.
urban
surplus
What is a low flat land?
alluvial plain
scribes
What do people pay, even today, to support the government?
taxes
The reason why irrigation was a necessary invention is because Ancient Mesopotamia has _____________ and ________________. Name one!
drought (dry periods) and flooding
In this type of governemntn oen person is the ruler, and has complete authority.
monarchy
silt
Name 3 levels of social classes, from lowest to highest.
Who is Hammurabi?
A babylonian leader who made 282 laws based on equal justice, an eye for an eye.
Because Ancient Mesopotamians made new products to meet goals, they were one of the first civilizations to develop _______________.
technology
The Ancient Mesopotamians had a special name for each city and the farmlands around it.
city-state
What are the names of the two rivers that were important to the Ancient Mesopotamians?
Tigris and Euphrates
Define the word civilization.
A centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing and ways of learning.
Define an empire.
A conquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler.
new ways of doing things;inventions
The land between two rivers.