The Fertile Crescent
The two rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Human-made waterways.
What are canals.
This term means to worship many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism.
This invention helped with the transportation of people and goods.
What is the wheel.
This code is considered the first posted set of laws for all to see.
What was Hammurabi's Code.
Fertile soil means it is good for this activity.
What is farming.
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation.
The Sumerians believed their gods lived in this temple.
What is a ziggurat.
This invention helped with breaking through the ground for planting.
What is the plow.
The name for a ruler or emperor (such as Hammurabi).
What is a monarch.
Mesopotamia means this in Greek.
What is "land between the rivers."
Workers specialize in a particular task or job after experiencing a surplus of food.
What is division of labor.
In Sumer, the division of people by rank, wealth, and class.
What is a social hierarchy.
This is the term used to describe the Sumerian invention of writing on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform.
Name just one group of people that conquered Mesopotamia for a period of time.
Who were the Kassites, Hittites, Chaldeans, and Assyrians.
Without rain, the people of Mesopotamia relied on this for its water supply.
What are rivers.
Consisted of the city and the surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state.
Sumerians wrote these long poems, such as Gilgamesh, telling the stories of heroes.
What are epics.
Sumerians invented a math system based on this number.
What is 60.
King Nebuchadnezzar, a Chaldean, is famous for the construction this; of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What was the Hanging Gardens.
The Fertile Crescent extended between these two bodies of water.
What are the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
A land with different territories and people under a single ruler.
What is an empire.
This Akkadian ruler formed the world's first empire in Mesopotamia.
Who was Sargon.
This invention, when rolled over clay, left a permanent imprint.
What is the cylinder seal.
The Phoenicians are known for the two major items of export throughout the Mediterranean region. Name one.
What is cedar and purple dye.