Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
What is a type of Sumerian writing that uses a triangular shaped wedge.
What is your social class?
What is how you are socially.
What are pyramid shaped temples?
What are ziggurats.
King of Babylonia.
What is Nebuchadnezzar the 2nd.
What is Mesopotamia?
What is a land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Why is Mesopotamia a good place to grow crops?
What is rich soil and silt from flooding rivers.
What are public works?
What are large projects used to benefit the community.
Who invented the alphabet?
What a the Phoenicians.
Babylonian gate.
What is the Gate of Ishtar.
What is Polytheism?
What is a belief in more than one god.
Name an example of a system of writing.
What is cuneiform.
What is a city-state?
What is an independent state that consists of a city and its surrounding territory.
What is a colony?
What is a group of people in a new territory that ties to a distant state.
What is an empire?
What is a state containing several countries or territories
What are 2 land features that gave Mesopotamia its name?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Town or _______.
What is a city.
To transport water to crops is to _______.
What is irrigate.
A spread of culture traits.
What is cultural diffusion.
This is a ruler.
What is a king.
Who served a role between Sumerians and their gods?
What are priests.
Name the 8 features of civilization.
cities, job specialization, arts and archetecture, established religion, social classes, public works, system of writing.
This is a system of trade that does not use money.
What is barter.
Creator of large set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi.
What is the great sea also called?
What is the Mediteranean Sea.