Vocabulary
Who was king Sargon
Who was the king of the Akkadians
What is the wheel
what is used to make pottory and art.
What are the six basic characteristics of a Civilization.
What are cities organized governments, art,religious class, divisions and a writing system
Complex societies that have governments, religion, art, cities, and a writing system.
What are civilizations
Why did Sumerian cities often go to war?
Why did they want to control territory and gain glory?
Who was king Hammurabri
Who was the king of Babylon
What is the writing system
what is coneiform
What did the rivers provide the people in the first Civilization
What provided fresh water, food, dams, and transportaion for trading
The civilization that invented the wheel
What is Mesopotamia
What are the three social classes that divided the people in Sumer?
What is the upper-class that included priest, kings, warriors, and government officials? What is the middle- class that included farmers, merchants, artisans, and fishers? What is the lower class that included enslaved people who worked on farm or in temples?
What was the Tigris River
What was one of the rivers that bounded Southern Iraq
What is the number system
what is used to count one hour and 360 degrees
where mesopotamia was located on a flat plain between what two rivers
What is the Tigris and Euphrates river
Effects Mesopotamia had living next to a river
What is irrigation
What is the name of the wedge-shaped writing?
What is cuneiform?
What was Mesopotamia
What was the ancient civilzation that was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ?
What is the agricutive
what is used to pratice of farming
What did farmers in Mesopotamia do to control water problems and ensure that they could grow plenty of food
What farmers in Mesopotamia built dams channels, walls water ways, and ditches so there are no more floods
A law code made by the king of Babylon
What is the code of Hammurabi
What is the name of the world’s oldest story?
What is “Epic of Gilgamesh” ?
What is Cuneiform
What was the name of Sumer's writing
What is the brick
What is used as mass producred bricks
What region in southern Mesopotamia had many cities formed by 3,000 b.c.
What sumer is the region in Southern Mesopotamia that had many cities formed by 3,000 b.c.
Who controlled some land and decided which crops would be planted
Who were priests
What is Hammurabi best known for?
What is a law code, or collection of laws?