Geography
What are the names of the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Which people were considered to be linked to the gods?
Priests
What is the first form of writing called?
Cuneiform
Another word for a ruler
Who was below the king in the social hierarchy?
Priest
What is the arc of land called?
Fertile Crescent
The belief in multiple gods.
Polytheism
This invention was created to move water from the canals into the farmer's fields.
Irrigation
This leader had a code of laws that the people believed had no flaws.
Hammurabi
If you were lower class, where did you live in the city-state?
Outside of the walls.
Because of the rivers doing this, Mesopotamians had to build canals.
Flooding
Kings were chosen by whom?
The gods
The Sumerians built a number system around which number?
60
Which trading society was rich because of their sale of purple dyes and fabrics?
Phoenicians
The splitting up of jobs and roles is called:
True or false: The amount of land a city-state occupied was determined by population.
False!
Sumerians city centers were built around what?
Temples
The Hittites and Assyrians both used these two weapons/tools in war:
Iron weapons and chariots
Who were the two kings who built up Babylon?
Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar
This person's job was to keep track of laws, records, and temple information.
Scribe
Babylon was located near what present day city?
Baghdad, Iraq
The name of the Sumerian temples.
Ziggurat
Who is the king who has a legendary epic written about him?
Gilgamesh
Who was the Akkadian ruler?
Sargon
Sargon's daughter became the first woman what?
Writer