Geography
The two major fresh water sources in ancient Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
The Mesopotamians system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
He created this code.
Who is Hammurabi?
These people were at the bottom of the social pyramid of each city-state in ancient Mesopotamia.
Who were slaves / farmers?
The two mountain ranges of ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tarsus (Taurus) and Zagros Mountains?
The Mesopotamian temples where the gods were worshipped.
What are ziggurats?
Ancient Sumerians created these which helped improve agriculture. These were based on the cycle of the moon.
What is a calendar?
This person was at the top of the pyramid and held the most power.
Who was the king?
The king's power in ancient Mesopotamia came from these.
Who were the gods?
The two deserts located west of the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Syrian and Arabian deserts?
This feature is on the sides of the ziggurats to help the gods enter.
What are steps / stairs?
These were two major technological inventions created by the ancient Mesopotamians that helped in agriculture.
What are the wheel and the plow?
Hammurabi's Code established this.
What is the law of the land?
Ancient Mesopotamia became a successful civilization because of this group of people's ability to trade.
Who were merchants?
The climate of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is dry and / or arid?
The Mesopotamians believed that this belonged to the gods.
What is land?
The invention of this system helped ancient Mesopotamians control flooding and drought.
What is irrigation?
The Code of Hammurabi not only influenced the daily lives of Babylonians, but it also changed the way people thought about this.
What is justice?
Because men had all power to make decisions, this society is referred to as this.
What is a patriarchal society?
The major body of water where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Ziggurats were built in the center of these.
What are city-states?
The most famous Sumerian (Mesopotamian) legend which still survives today.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The code of Hammurabi ends by declaring that he had been called upon by the gods "to cause justice to prevail in the land," and to do this.
What is "destroy the wicked and the evil."
This was the last group of people to rule Mesopotamia.
Who were the Assyrians?