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The region studied in the field of Classics.
What is the Mediterranean region?
A civilization's system of belief.
What is religion?
The system of writing developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
A system of government in which one person holds the power, such as a queen or king.
What is a monarchy?
The transition from hunter-gatherer groups to settled farming groups.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Geography includes a civilization's access to this type of resource.
What are natural resources?
The belief in more than one deity.
What is polytheism?
The first civilization to invent the wheel.
Who are the Sumerians?
A political construct in which one state dominates over another (or many others).
What is an empire?
A social system in which men hold primary power.
What is patriarchy?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The temple in the middle of a Sumerian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
A long narrative or poem about a legendary hero.
What is an epic?
The leader who wrote one of the earliest legal codes.
Who is Hammurabi?
The year in which the earliest Sumerian currency was created.
What is 650 BCE?
The name of the mountain range to the north of Mesopotamia.
What are the [Zargos mountains or Caucasus mountains]?
The collective name of Sumerian deities.
What are annunaki?
The first civilization to use banks.
Who are the Babylonians.
The leader who established the Akkadian empire.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
A person who learned the Sumerian writing system and served in the government.
What is a scribe?
The literal meaning of "Mesopotamia".
What is the land "between two rivers"?
The name of a deity worshipped by the Babylonians.
What is [Marduk, Nabu, or Ishtar]?
The first civilization to use a postal system.
Who are the Akkadians?
A system in which government authority and religious authority are seen as the same.
What is theocracy?
The name for enslaved people in Babylonian social structure.
What is Wardu?