Geography
The land between the Tigris and the Euphrates
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The first writing system in recorded history.
What is cuneiform?
Women had these in Sumeria.
What are rights?
Sumerians believed in many gods, this is called being...
What is polytheistic?
Fortressed cities ruled by their own king
What are city-states?
Sumerians used this, which made individual wealth more easily stored
Sumerians used this method to control flooding
What is irrigation?
This invention would be attached to carts.
What are wheels?
These were common in Mesopotamia and came from neighboring areas
Kings were viewed as...
What are demigods?
This leader created an extensive set of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
Having more crops than you can eat is called...
What is a surplus?
Ancient Mesopotamians used the rivers for what?
The world's oldest known story
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
The largest Social Class in Sumer
what is the middle class?
Sumerian had gods based in...
What is nature?
What is the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer?
The money in Sumeria is called
What is Shekels
The continent Mesopotamia is on
What is Asia
King Nebuchanezzar built this for his wife
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
They developed the format of this thing that we still use in the present (Think: calendars, watches, clocks)
What is time?
Temples in Sumerian are called.
What is a Ziggurat?
What is the first empire in Mesopotamia?
What is Assyria?
Goods were traded with another civilization (HINT: this civilization in in Africa)
The name of the peninsula that Mesopotamia is on
The Arabian Peninsula
The people that were in charge of creating clay tablets and learning the language.
What are scribes.
They developed this system of leadership that uses a King or a Queen.
What is monarchy?
What is the name of the god of air?
Who is Enlil?
The king that built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchanezzar
They often used animals and wheeled carts to transport goods to trade, traveling in this large procession
what is a caravan?