Show:
Mesopotamia
Inventions
Kill or be killed
Religion
Law and Government
100
The two rivers that bordered Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
Before paper, this was what the Mesopotamians used to write on?
What are clay tablets? (Clay is also acceptable)
100
A permanent and professional force of men or warriors.
What is the standing army?
100
Priests used this study of the stars to determine when floods would occur.
What is Astronomy?
100
Laws and edicts from the King were written on this stone pillar and placed in the center of a town or city-state.
What is a stele?
200
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is The Land Between Two Rivers?
200
This is comprised of symbols and lines.
What is cuneiform?
200
The reason why it was better to recruit warriors from your own city rather than hiring mercenaries?
What is Loyalty?
200
The belief that spirits are in all things.
What is animism?
200
The idea that all people are subject to the rules.
What is the Rule of Law?
300
Another name for Mesopotamia based upon its shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
This was constructed from a small reed and used to write with.
What is a stylus?
300
When one city-state attacks and takes over another
What is Conquer?
300
The movement of culture through society.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
The rules of law set forth by the Babylonian King that established the presumption of innocence.
What is Hammurabi's code?
400
The technique used by Mesopotamia to divert water to the land.
What is Irrigation?
400
This invention makes it easier to go place to place.
What is the wheel?
400
The payment offered to keep the peace or keep from being attacked.
What is tribute?
400
The worship of many gods
What is Polytheism.
400
An independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territories.
What is a city-state?
500
This resulted in the deposit of rich soil into the farmland.
What is the benefit of the river floods?
500
This invention marked the end of prehistory .
What is writing?
500
A force of men on horseback.
What is the Calvary?
500
A Sumerian Temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
500
An area ruled by a distant country.
What is a colony?