Geography/Economy
Mesopotamia is located between what rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia created the world's first...
monarchy
city-state
class system
Each city-state was run by a...
king
What is the belief in many gods?
Polytheism
a religious temple in Sumer
Sumarians used streams for what?
Irrigation or large-scale farming
What did they develop that we still use today?
Who set laws for the entire empire
Hammurabi
Most gods were based on
nature
a persons whose job it was to write
scribe
What allowed cities to form trading centers?
surplus of crops
What was the first writing system called?
Cuneiform
Who was at the top of the social order?
Kings and their families
What is a demigod?
part man, part god
area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Mesopotamia
This invention helped move large amounts of goods
wheeled carts
The first empire in the world
Akkadian Empire
Which class made up the majority of the population?
middle class
leader of the Israelites who led them out of Egypt
Moses
What term means breaking the needs of the people into jobs that matched each individuals skill set
Division of Labor
What is the oldest-surviving story ever written?
Epic of Gilgamesh
slaves
What were the two main god's names?
Enlil and Enki
people who developed a system of writing based on symbols that stood for sounds