The name of the area where Mesopotamia is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A tool that is used to help prepare the soil for planting seeds.
What is a plow?
The name of the first Mesopotamian civilization that began in the south.
The fictional king of Uruk who goes looking for immortality after his friend (Enkidu) dies.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Two of the most valuable crops for the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia were _________ and _________.
What is barley and dates?
The names of the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
A specific number that helps us measure time.
What is sixty?
The name of the civilization that invented stele (3D sculptures) and is considered the world's first empire?
What is Akkad (Akkadian)?
The Babylonian King who wrote the first laws in an "if _____, then ____" style. (hint: An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth)
Who is Hammurabi?
This is the term for a writer in ancient times.
What is scribe?
The name of the modern-day country where Mesopotamia used to be.
What is Iraq?
What is cuneiform?
The name of the civilization that was governed by a harsh code of laws, and contained one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the "hanging gardens."
What is Babylon?
The Akkadian king who conquered Sumer and expanded the Mesopotamian empire.
Who is Sargon?
This is what a temple was called in Mesopotamia.
What is ziggurat?
The capital of Assyria.
What is Nineveh?
A tool that was first used to make pottery, but then used for transportation devices.
What is the wheel?
The civilization that conquered Babylon, but swore to protects its culture. They were known for their iron weapons, and for being great conquerors.
What is Assyria (Assyrians)?
The Babylonian king who built the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" for his wife (Amytis of Medea).
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
Two ways that Mesopotamians developed a system for irrigation.
What is they dug canals and created dams (levees)?
The capital of Sargon's empire.
What is Agade?
A transportation device that is made up of two wheels attached to a carriage.
What is the chariot?
The civilization that wrote the earliest known piece of literature, "The Epic of Gilgamesh."
Who are the Sumerians? What is Sumer?
The grandson of Sargon the Great, who expanded Akkadian empire even further, and he was considered its last great king.
Who is Naram-Sin?
The Mesopotamians were _____________ and believed in many Gods.
What is polytheistic?