Physical Features
An area of good farmland stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Euphrates?
A group of people from the earliest known civilization in the region of Southern Mesopotamia, a major city was Ur.
Who were the Sumerians?
A major desert just to the South of Mesopotamia, named after a modern Middle Eastern country.
What is the Syrian desert?
the raising of crops and animals
What is agriculture?
The large sea to the West of the region of Mesopotamia
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The eastern of Mesopotamia's two great rivers.
What is the Tigris?
A group of people who hunted and gathered wild berries for food
Who were hunter-gatherers?
A water source in the desert.
What is an oasis?
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state or country
What is a city-state?
A key kingdom in Mesopotamia that lasted from the 18th century to the 6th century BCE.
What is Babylon?
The sea that separates the Arabian Peninsula from East Africa.
What is the Red Sea?
loose, mineral rich soil from a river that is good for farming
What is silt?
The king of Babylonia, his code of laws was the first of its kind.
Who was Hammurabi?
A group of people with no settled home, many live in the desert.
Who are nomads?
A rectangular stepped tower with a temple on top, located in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
An important city-state, considered the capital of Sumer.
What is Ur?
The gulf that the two major rivers of Mesopotamia flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The major river West of Mesopotamia, flowing through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
A powerful empire that united the Mesopotamian city-states under one rule
What was the Akkadian Empire?
The second largest desert in the Arabian peninsula, known for its reddish sands.
What is the An Nufad?
wedge shaped writing used in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
One of the seven wonders of the Ancient World, a series of tiered gardens.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
The mountain range that separates Mesopotamia from the rest of Asia.
What are the Zagros?
Ancient Greek for "river"
What is potamos?
The most powerful leader of the Akkadian Empire.
Who was Sargon?
The largest desert in the Arabian peninsula. In Arabic it means "empty quarter"
What is the Rub Al Khali?
a group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
What is an empire?
a belief system which has many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?