Geography
What two fresh-water rivers was Mesopotamia located by?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Who were the two finest leaders from Mesopotamia?
Sargon and Hammurabi
What inventions were created to make travel easier?
The wheel and sailboat
The city state that Hammurabi ruled over was called?
Babylon
Where are Priests on the social class pyramid?
Middle Class
Mesopotamia was located by the modern-day countries of?
Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Turkey
Which leader created his own empire and named it the Akkadian Empire?
Sargon
What do we call the earliest form of writing?
Cuneiform
How many city-states were in Mesopotamia?
a dozen, 12
What does it mean if a group of people are Monotheistic?
Worship only one God or Goddess
What did the two fresh-water rivers near Mesopotamia provide to the people that lived in Mesopotamia?
fresh drinking water, fertile soil to water crops, rivers to travel for trade, and natural land barriers for protection
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
A list of 282 laws that Hammurabi created that focused on equal and fair punishment. "an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
Which invention helped Mesopotamians use natural land barriers for trade?
Sailboats
How did city-states form in Mesopotamia?
A surplus of food
Where were religious services held at in city-states?
The ziggurat
What brought fertile soil, or silt, to Mesopotamia every year?
Floods from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Kings were viewed as what in Ancient Mesopotamian society?
demigods
What was the purpose of math in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Math was used to keep inventory of items, help count, and keep track of a surplus.
Many cities had what at the center of them?
A ziggurat
What kind of gods and goddesses did the Ancient Mesopotamians worship?
Nature-based gods (Sun, water, rain, etc)
What was the purpose of natural land barriers?
What is a dynasty?
A line of rulers from the same family.
What was the purpose of simple machines like the pulley in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Simple machines both reduced the amount of work time and the work load required for tasks. Specifically the pulley was very good at moving heavy items like sandstone used for buildings and homes.
Where did most cities form at in Mesopotamia?
Near the Tigris and Euphrates River
Were the Ancient Mesopotamians Monotheistic, or we they Polytheistic?
Polytheistic