Vocabulary
A wealthy city on the river known for trade. (where Jonah was sent)
Nineveh
The study of the connection between the stars and people’s lives.
Astrology
Hammurabi was one of their king’s who promoted justice and created a code of law.
Babylonians
What were two of the first discoveries?
Taming animals and metals (made bronze)
Sumerian walled cities together with the land around them
City states
The king famous for his Code of Law.
Hammurabi
The great king of the Chaldeans who built the hanging gardens.
Nebuchadnezzar
They were known as great warriors. They invented the chariot wheel.
Assyrians
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between the two rivers
A wonder of Babylon built by Nebuchadnezzar
the Hanging Gardens
Wedge shaped writing
Cuneiform
A tool to imprint their writing into clay.
Cylinder seal
Hierarchy in society: merchants, nobles, commoners, and slaves.
Sumerians
What are the famous two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Storage places for water
Reservoirs
A natural or artificial wall that blocks water from going where we don't want it to go.
natural levee
The king of the Akkadians, who united all of Mesopotamia.
Sargon
They were known for building and engineering many roads
Persians
What was the first system of government? What did it change to?
Democracy which later changed into monarchy (kings and queens) because of war
Name one Biblical event that lines up with the events in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Answers may vary.
Sumerian kings or rulers
lugals
A system of human organization that generates distinctive cultural patterns and usually provides protection, security and continuity for its members
Society
They built the first permanent bridge
Chaldeans
Describe why the land was so good for farming.
Answers will vary.
What were the descendants of Japheth called?
Indo-Europeans