Geography
What two rivers are located across Mesopotamia?
Euphrates and Tigris
Who created the wheel?
Sumers
What was the average shape of the buildings in every city during the Mesopotamia period and what were they called?
Pyramid, ziggurat.
What did Sumerians believe after death?
An afterlife
What are the three groups of people in Mesopotamia?
Assyrians, Babylonians, and Akkadians.
Where is Mesopotamia located? Hint: in notes
Syria and Iraq.
How did Mesopotamians count?
Why were ziggurats shaped as pyramids?
They noticed how mountains had a cone like shape and thought the buildings should be built like that.
What were Sumerians (Polytheism, atheist, monotheistic, etc)
Polytheism
Who invented the 360 degree angle technique for time?
Babylonians
Where did Mesopotamia originate?
How did the Mesopotamia's write?
They poked/carved their words into pieces of clay.
What were Summerians?
All different cities that ruled itself (city-state).
The religion that the Akkad people practiced
Polytheism
Who started the first true Empire. Who was the king of that Empire.
Akkadians. King Sargon.
What was the key of controlling Mesopotamia? And when was this information discovered?
Controlling rivers. 1800s
Why did king Hammurabi put laws into stone?
He wanted the laws to last forever
What was a big item did the Hittites use?
Iron
Where is the place the Sumerians practiced their religion?
In ziggurats
How did king Hammurabi from the Babylonians, get the message across about laws?
What is the climate of Mesopotamia like in summer?
extreme heat, and dryness.
How many laws did king Hammurabi make?
300
What group in Mesopotamia make the first libraries?
The Assyrians
How many gods did the Babylonians believe in?
Nine
why were people afraid of the Assyrians?
they ruled by fear and were very intense.