Geography
Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks is ?
silt
Polytheism is what?
What was the Sumerian writing system called?
Cuneiform
true
The center of Sumerian society was ____ area.
urban
What types of damages did floods cause?
Destroyed crops, killed livestock, and washed away homes
True or False: Some educated women were priestesses
True
True or False: Sumerians did not catalogue their medical knowledge.
False
Who created the set 282 laws?
Hammurabi
This city was located on the Euphrates River near what is today Baghdad, Iraq
Babylon
Who developed irrigation?
Mesopotamians
Name the highest social class of the Sumerians
Kings
The sumerians were the first people in Mesopotamia to build large temples called...
ziggurats
What were two important developments of the Phoenicians?
purple dye, founded Carthage, and developed an alphabet.
Sumer farmers lived mainly in which type of area?
Rural, countryside
How did the Fertile Crescent get its name?
From the arc of the fertile land from the Mediterranean SEa to the Persian Gulf
Who was the baby that was found floating on a river?
sargon
Plows
What allowed soldiers to move around quickly around a battlefield and fire arrows at their enemy?
Chariots
This land hand mountains that bordered the region to the north and east. To the west was the Mediterranean. Most of this land is now Lebanon.
Name 3 occupations that developed as fewer people needed to farm
religious leaders, government workers, and crafters
Why did the Sumerians consider it everyone's responsibility to keep the gods happy?
in order to live a prosperous life, everyone had to do their part
The army that was the most powerful fighting force the world had ever seen was...
Assyrian Army