Geography
What is "Land Between the Rivers"?
The first Empire.
What is Sumer or Sumeria?
Sumerian invention that helped with transportation and pottery making.
What is the wheel?
The first feature to be present in a new civilization. We saw this happen for the first time ever in Mesopotamia and it changed a lot about how societies lived before.
What is agriculture?
Assyrians were known as these.
What is warriors?
The names of the two rivers on either side of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
The second Mesopotamian Empire.
What is Babylon?
Sumerian invention that we still use today. It was important for record keeping.
What is writing?
The highest ranking members of the social class in Mesopotamia.
What are kings/nobles?
These mountains were located to the north of Mesopotamia and provided protection, water runoff and nutrients.
What is the Taurus and Zagros Mountains.
The area of healthy soil that includes Mesopotamia and surrounding areas.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The third Empire of Mesopotamia.
What is Assyria?
Babylonian invention responsible for keeping people in line and giving them clear rules and consequences.
What is laws?
The type of religion practiced in Mesopotamia.
What is polytheism?
These two desserts were located to the south of Mesopotamia and provided protection.
Syrian and Arabian Deserts.
There are three main reasons Mesopotamians settled in the area where they did.
What are protection, fertile soil, and access to water.
What is Assyria?
Babylonian invention used for keeping track of time passing.
What is the calendar?
Structures built in the center of City-States. The place where they believed their gods lived.
What is a ziggurat?
These people were trained in Mesopotamia to write down records.
What are scribes?
The two bodies of saltwater located to the southeast and northwest of Mesopotamia.
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.
The three empires of Mesopotamia in order.
What is Sumer, Babylon, Assyria
Assyrian invention that gave them access to additional resources.
What is trade?
Agriculture led to the development of this important feature of civilization.
What is division of labor?
The Epic of Gilgamesh