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Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
Important Information
100
What is irrigation?
Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops
100
What did they use to build?
Mud brick
100
The climate was ________ and __________
hot and dry
100
An _____________ is someone who studies the heavenly bodies
astronomer
100
What is the oldest known city?
Jericho
200
What is a long poem that tells the story of a hero?
an epic
200
Name one Sumerian invention
a plow, a sailboat, a wheel
200
Mesopotamia is known as the ___________ of civilization
cradle
200
Record keepers who often become government officials
scribes
200
Who built the Hanging Gardens for his wife?
Nebuchadnezzar
300
What is a group of many different lands under one ruler?
an empire
300
The center of the Chaldean empire was at
Babylon
300
What helped ideas spread around the world?
Trade
300
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called ___________
artisans
300
Artisans, farmers, merchants, and fishers made up the ______ class.
middle
400
A grand temple with a shrine at the top, looks like a giant square wedding cake
A ziggurat
400
The Sumerian writing system was called ________
Cuneiform
400
Who was the king that conquered Mesopotamia?
Sargon
400
A group of traveling merchants is called a __________
caravan
400
Who made up the upper class?
kings and priests
500
Something that passes from parent to child is _________
hereditary
500
Name one military accomplishment of the Assyrians.
The used iron to make their weapons.
500
The first kings were probably __________
scribes
500
Who was the hero of an epic who travels around the world performing great deeds?
Gilgamesh
500
Who wrote an important code of laws?
Hammurabi