Achievements
The first form of writing
What is Cuneiform?
The location of Mesopotamia
What is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
By 3,000 BC, this civilization had developed an organized way of directing order and establishing control of areas within Mesopotamia
Who are the Sumerians?
flow from the mountains in the north and empty into this gulf
What is the Persian Gulf?
The two most important Achievements in Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform and the wheel?
The term: controlling the flow of rivers
What is Irrigation?
In the 2300's BC, a people north of Sumer conquered the Sumerian city states and took control
Who are the Akkadians
These areas of land of land recieved very little rainfall
What are the plains and plateaus?
One of the first works of literature
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
What Mesopotamia was bordered by
What is mountains in the North and the East?
The people who conquered the Akkadian Empire
Who are the Babylonians?
The thing that was deposited by the rivers to help crops grow
What is silt?
The world’s first written set of laws
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
What modern country Mesopotamia was in
What is Iraq?
These people conquered the Babylonians
Who are the Assyrians?
These things brought water to planting fields
What are catch basins?
A Terrance pyramid design
What is the Ziggurat?
these started on a plateau
What are settelments?
These people conquered the Assyrians
Who are the Chaldeans?
These things help control flooding
What are river walls?