Vocabulary
A long poem that tells the story of a hero
What is an epic?
King of Amorites who collected 282 laws
Who was Hammurabi?
The Sumerians built levees to help control these
What are destructive floods?
The Tigris and Euphrates provided this for farming.
What is fertile soil?
Improved record keeping and made literature possible
What is cuneiform?
A city and the surrounding land and villages that it controlled
What is a city-state?
The first empire
What is Akkadian?
The Fertile Crescent was a curved area from the Mediterranean Sea to this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Asia Minor is a peninsula between the Mediterranean Sea and this sea.
What is the Black Sea?
This means between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
Emperor of the Akkadian Empire
Who was Sargon I?
The people relied on the priests to gain the favor of these
What are gods?
According to this book, a crime is a sin against God.
What is the Bible?
He made the Mesopotamia song that y'all want me to play every day.
Who is Mr. Nicky?
A way of supplying water to land or crops
What is irrigation?
Turned away from evil ways after Jonah preached repentance and received God's mercy
What is Assyrian Empire?
Scribes were important, because they kept these for merchants, the temple, and the government.
What are records?
He received God's judgment and became like a beast of the field.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
This was a Mesopotamian pyramid whose temples connected heaven and earth.
What are ziggurats?
Invention that improved transportation and pottery making
What is the wheel?
Amorite civilization
What is the Babylonian Empire?
Three of the Sumerian architectural features were domes, columns, and these.
What are arches?
The Sumerian farmers produced a food surplus, which made this possible.
What is job specialization?
Ancient Sumerian homes were built around a central this
What is courtyard?