Mesopotamia Geography
The land of Ancient Mesopotamia between these two rivers.
What is the Tigris & Euphrates River?
Built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor gods
What are the Ziggurats?
What transportation technology were the Mesopotamians the first to invent?
what is The wheel or the Chariot
An area ruled by a distant country
What is a colony?
Job in charge of supplying food for the city-state
What are farmers?
King of the Akkadians
Who is Sargon?
This country is located where Mesopotamia was?
What is Iraq?
Belief in one god
Monotheism
term used to discuss how the Sumerians supplied water to their crops
What are irrigation systems?
city with its own government, religion and laws. Kind of like its own country.
What are city-states?
a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
What is a bartering system?
Ruler who wrote down laws and placed them around the empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
Continent Mesopotamia was located on?
What is Asia?
People who could enter Ziggurats
Who are Mesopotamian priests and kings?
Used as a writing tool
What is a stylus?
these people held the most power in ancient Mesopotamia.
who are kings and priests?
An idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture.
What is a cultural trait?
Persian leader who conquered Medes, Lydia, Babylon and freed the Jewish people. showed respect to all he conquered.
Who was Cyrus the great?
What happened each spring to deposit silt that kept Mesopotamian farmland fertile.
The rivers flooded
Polytheism
What is a belief in multiple gods?
The phoenicians first developed this writing system to be more effective than cuneiform and have fewer symbols.
What is an alphabet
When a group of people has similar incomes and backgrounds, they are part of the same _____.
what is social class
good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country is called an a)____________, good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's borders is called an b)______________.
a)import b)export
said to be legendary King of the first city of Uruk?
Who is Gilgamesh?
What are 2 of the the early city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what is Babylon, Ur, Uruk, Sippar, Nippur, kish, lagash
eventually became the religion of the Persian empire. had a belief in one god.
Zoroastrianism
The written language of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
a state containing several countries or territories.
what is an empire?
cities and civilizations needed protection and created this kind of army that was different from the typical part time soldiers of the past.
What is a standing army?
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?