Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Land between two rivers
Polytheism
What is the belief in many gods
First written form of writing
What is Cuneiform
Mesopotamia is in what Continent?
What is Asia
The body of water west of Mesopotamia
What is the Mediterranean Sea
First civilization in Mesopotamia
Sumerians
Religious Temples
What is Ziggurats
Sumer was a
What is a Sumerian City state
Babylon is present day?
What is Bagdad, Iraq
body of water south and east of Mesopotamia
Persian Gulf
First Kingdom in Mesopotamia
What is the Akkadians
Conquered Mesopotamia in 1782 BC
Who was Hammarabi?
River closest to the Sahara desert
What is the Euphrates
What two rivers flow through Mesoptamia?
What were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Sea north and east of Mesopotamia
What is the Caspian Sea
Called this because of the rich fertile soil
What is the Fertile Crescent
Invented the idea of a circle containing 360 degrees and the hour containing a circle
Who were the Babylonians
Cuneiform is from the Latin word
What is wedge
Mountain range is east of the Tigris River
What are the Zagros Mountains
What rivers flooded and spread rich fertile soil.
What were the Tigris and Euphrates
First to make the wheel
Who were the Sumerians
War-like people from the north
Who were the Assyrians
Persian King who conquered Babylon?
Cyrus the Great
Sea Northwest of the Fertile Crescent
What is the Black Sea
What river empties into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Nile