Location
Modern country location of Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
King responsible for first written law
What is Hammurabi?
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
This math concept helped the Mesopotamian's keep track of seconds in the hour, hours in the day, and days in their 360 day year.
What is the base 60 number system?
This was invented to help get the fields ready for planting.
What is the plow?
Greek word for "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
What King built the hanging gardens of Babylon for his Queen?
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Term that refers to the ability to tame plants and animals.
What is Domestication?
This system was developed to help control flooding.
What is irrigation?
Name the 2 major rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What was the idea behind Hammurabi's code?
Eye for an eye
Built as temples to worship the gods
What are ziggurats?
This invention helped the people move their goods to market.
What is the wheel?
People with no single, settled homeland.
What are nomads?
The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as this.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
A professional writer in the ancient world.
What is a scribe?
This is the name for the wedge shaped writing of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
What is it called to grow crops and raise animals to eat?
What is agriculture?
Body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates both flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf
The term used to describe a city with an independent government.
What is a city-state?
A worker skilled in making something like jewelry or pots
What is an artisan?
What did Mesopotamians build their houses out of?
What is reeds or mud-brick