Terms
Mesopotamia
Is the land between two rivers.
Fertile crescent
Tigris and Euphrates river
Seal
Cylinder seal that is made of stone and gems and has a design on it.
Hanging Gardens
Built by Nebuchadnezzar, for his queen who was homesick.
Definition of Mesopotamia
The land between two rivers.
Farming
Possible because of irrigation.
Civilization
Well organized city with a goverment
Indo-Europeans
Persian, the new ruler of the land between two rivers and the rest of the Fertile Cresent.
Artisan
Phoenicians were fine workers in glass, fine metals, and wooden goods.
why do people live there?
People live there because there are good fertile and natural resources.
crops
Wheats, Barly, Vegtables
Reservoirs
Stores water when it floods
Fertile Crescent
The long crescent shape of the land is called Mesopotamia.
Empire
Land ruled by a single authority
why was the land fertile?
When it flooded the two rivers made silt.
Inventions
Wheels, number system, cylinder seal, arch, dome, plow, saws
City-States
A town with land that surrounds it.
Semities
Descendants of Shem.
Babylonians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Phoenicians, and Hebrews
Location
Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
cuneiform
A way of writing
Astrology
The study of stars and planets and how they influence people.