Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
This code of laws is harsh by today's standards, but it was the first of its kind and became very important.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Sumerians believed that each city was protected by one of these.
What is god?
This temple for the gods was usually the center of the city.
What is a ziggurat?
Sumerians used these on their boats to make trading easier.
What is a sail?
There were five major cities in Mesopotamia. Name 2 of them.
Akkad, Assur, Babylon, Nineveh, Uruk.
This invention changed transportation forever, even though it was first used for irrigation, pottery making, and milling (making flour).
What is the wheel?
This was the ruler that led the Akkadians and started empire mania. (In their chariots, they rolled!)
Who is Sargon?
This is an exchange of goods from one place or person to another.
What is trade?
The empire that was considered ruthless.
Who are the Assyrians?
This gulf flows into the Fertile Crescent and is where lots of artifacts from the area and time period have been found.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This is the ancient writing system that was first invented by the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
This is where most people lived in Ancient Mesopotamia, many of them together under the same ruler made up an empire.
What is a city-state?
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
The culture and language that gradually replaced the Akkadians.
What is Sumerian?
Each spring in Mesopotamia, the rivers would flood, which allowed this to happen.
What is spread water and silt across the plain, allowing for rich fertile soil for farming?
The Sumerians mixed copper and tin to make this new metal.
What is bronze?
These people were considered the most important in the community because they were close to the gods.
Who are priests?
The curved region with rich soil in the Middle East.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Today the Fertile Crescent included these countries. (Name at least two).
What are Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Palestine, and Kuwait?
The Sumerian year had this many months with this many days each.
What is 12 months and 30 days each?
This person was sent by the gods to rule, according to the Ancient Mesopotamians anyway.
Who is the king?
An Ancient form of writing, triangular in shape.
What is cuneiform?
A source that was written by someone who was there at the time it happened.
What is a primary source?