Geography and Nomenclature
Between two Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Sumerian writing system, the first writing system in the world
What is Cuneiform?
Pyramid-like structures at the center of each Mesopotamian city-state. They were multitiered religious centers with shrines atop that connected heaven and earth, and also paid homage to the city’s main god.
What are Ziggurats?
The Assyrian Empire started out as this city state.
What is Ashur or Assur?
This Canadian Musician always brings joy to the classroom.
Who is Peter Pringle?
Any human society that is characterized by the development of the state, social hierarchy, urbanization, organized religion, and writing systems
What is civilization?
The first city-state in the world, had a population of 50,000 at its peak.
What is Uruk?
What are Priest-Kings?
Assyrians combined this with militarism to justify their ferocious conquest
What is religion?
This king of the Old Babylonian Empire created one of the most famous law codes in the world
Who is Hammurabi?
The southern subregion of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
This Poem is oldest surviving work of literature, written in Mesopotamia around 2100 BCE
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This type of approach to religion in Mesopotamia was characterized by the worship of many gods
This Assyrian king was terrifying and vicious.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
This king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire built the Ishtar Gate and sent the Israelites into exile
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
The two rivers that are the borders of Mesopotamia to the east and the west
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Nickname for Mesopotamian kings.
What are Lugals or 'Big Men'?
This god was the main deity for the Neo-assyrians. He is the god of war and empire.
What is Ashur?
The Assyrians developed this type of governance to reign in their Empire's vast expanses
What is Provincial Governance?
This magnificent structure was labeled one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient world
The region in the Middle East that is considered the birthplace of agriculture and some of the world’s first civilizations.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
1st documented war in history is fought between these two cities.
What is Lagash and Umma?
This god is the main deity of Babylon. This god is the god of creation and judgement, he fought Tiamat the chaos dragon in the Mesopotamian creation story.
What is Marduk?
The Neo-Assyrian Empire laid siege this city in 702 BCE
What is Jerusalem?
Babylon was conquered by this Empire in 539 BCE
What is Achaemenid Persia?