Geography of the Fertile Crescent
What is the fertile crescent?
a large arc of rich, or fertile land.
Were are Sumerian's from?
Southern Mesopotamia
What are pictographs?
Picture symbols
What is a monarch?
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
What does rural mean?
Countryside area
What are the two parts Mesopotamia was made up of?
Northern Mesopotamia and Southern Mesopotamia
What job did most Sumerians have?
Farming
What is an epic?
A long poem that tells stories of heroes.
What was Hammurabi’s most important accomplishment?
Hammurabi's Code
What does urban mean?
City area
What is irrigation?
A way of supplying eater from an area of land.
What was their ONE political unit called?
City-state
What number was the Sumerian math system based off of?
60
Where was Babylon located
On the Euphrates River next to present day Baghdad.
What is an empire?
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
What small societies grow into in Mesopotamia?
Civilizations (cities)
Who established the first empire?
Sargon
What did plows do?
Broke through hard clay soil to prepare it for planting.
What is Hammurabi’s code?
A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What was the cuneiform?
World's first system of writing.
Why did the ancient Mesopotamians create irrigation systems?
They needed to get water to other places that don’t naturally have water- so that crops and grow and they have the water they need.
What does polytheism mean?
The worship of many Gods
What is a ziggurt?
List in order the peoples who ruled Mesopotamia
Sumerians, Hitties, Kassites, Assyrians and Chaldeans
Why did so many people want control of the land of the Fertile Crescent?
Because the land was the best place to make civilization because of where it was located and how easy it was to grow crops.