Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia between these two rivers.
What is the Tigris & Euphrates River?
Built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods
What are the Ziggurats?
Large banks of earth and stone that hold back water
What is a levee?
Ruled City-States
What are Kings?
Job in charge of supplying food for the city-state
What are farmers?
King of the Akkadians
Who is Sargon?
This country is located where Mesopotamia was?
What is Iraq?
What are sacrifices of food and people?
Sumerians' most famous invention Different forms of this invention were used by artisans, farmers, and the military.
What is the wheel?
Had control over the surrounding countryside
What are city-states?
Mesopotamians traded for these items
What are building materials, food, and other goods?
Ruler of Babylon who wrote down laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Continent Mesopotamia was located on?
What is Asia?
People who could enter Ziggurats
Who are Mesopotamian priests and kings?
Used as a writing tool
What is a stylus?
Enforced laws and collected taxes
What is the King and/or government officials?
This job involved weaving baskets and creating pottery
What are artisans?
Ruthless empire that conquered Egypt and became adept at siege warfare.
Who are the Assyrians?
Bodies of water Ancient Mesopotamia is between other than the rivers.
What is the Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, and the Caspian Sea?
Polytheism
What is a belief in multiple gods?
Reason Mesopotamians needed to build walls around their villages
What is to protect against invaders or attacks?
When a group of people has similar incomes and backgrounds, they are part of the same _____.
what is social class
Reason to collect taxes
What is to build temples, maintain irrigation systems, and general upkeep of the city-state?
King referenced in the Old Testament who captured Jews and made them leave their homeland.
The name for the rich soil land around Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent ?
Amount of life gods controlled in Ancient Mesopotamian lives.
What are ALL aspects?
The written language did Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
Ruler who wrote down laws and placed them around the empire.
Who was Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
Someone who goes to school to learn to write and become record keepers
What is a Scribe?
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?