Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia between these two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates River
What is cavalry?
soldiers riding on horses
What was built in Mesopotamia to honor the gods?
Ziggurats
City-States were ruled by who?
what are Kings
What was the civilization that Sargon conquered?
What is Sumer?
What did the people at the top of the pyramid have?
What was the land called when it was able to produce good crops?
what is fertile
What is an epic?
What is a long poem about a hero
What agricultural achievements did the Mesopotamians create?
what is irrigation
Who had control over the surrounding countryside?
what are city-states
What empire did King Hammurabi lead?
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
Why do most early river civilizations develop along a river?
fresh water, fish, trade, fertile soil
In Ancient Mesopotamia, What does Polytheism Mean?
what is Believed in Multiple Gods
What was created to make them get to places faster?
wheel
When a group of people has similar incomes and backgrounds.
what is social class
What was Darius the Great known for?
Who makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders
What bodies of water is Ancient Mesopotamia Between other than the rivers?
The Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, and the Caspian Sea
What is a tribute?
What are all six Mesopotamian inventions we studied in class?
What are plow, wheel, sailboat, calendar, number system based on 60 and geometry
What are the names of the empires we studied?
What are Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Persian
What were Nebuchadnezzars contributions to the Neo Babylonian empire?
What is creating the Hanging Gardens and temples, and exiling the Israelites to Babylon
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are enslaved people
What are 2 of the the early city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what is Babylon, Ur, Urik, Sappir, Nippur,
What aspects did Gods control of Ancient Mesopotamian's lives?
ALL aspects
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
what is Cuneiform
Who created the oldest code of law?
who was Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
What was Ashurbanipal's contribution to the Assyrian empire?
What is made Nineveh the capital and created a library
What were the 3 classes of Mesopotamia?
what is upper/middle/lower classes