Vocab
Belief in many gods
Polytheism
Who is your favorite teacher?
Mr. Hardy
Which two rivers make up Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
How was water moved from mountains to fields?
Aqueducts
What was Gilgamesh searching for?
Immortality
Process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
Irrigation
Came to power after Sargon
Hammurabi
Where is Mesopotamia currently located?
Modern day Iraq
Created a system of laws and codes for the people of Mesopotamia
Hammurabi
What kind of crops did the people of Mesopotamia grow? Give me 2
Barley, wheat, lettuce, pomegranates, and dates
Long period of dry weather
Drought
Created the worlds first empire
Sargon
Mesopotamia
Name of the writing system the people in Mesopotamia first used
Cuneiform
How was Hammurabi able to gain control over his empire?
Treaties and Trade
A person who writes things down
Scribe
Who is Gilgamesh's friend on his journey?
Enkidu
Hammurabi was a part of which group?
Babylonians
How did the Mesopotamians control flooding?
Levees and Dams
How many years did Sargon reign for?
56 years
Self governing city
City-State
We learned about an epic poem, who is it names after?
Gilgamesh
Why was everyone constantly at war?
Fighting over the Tigris and the Euphrates
Which group of people invented geometry?
Sumerians
Standard of:
Ur