Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia means
What is the land between two rivers
Cuneiform is written on
what is a clay tablet
A Mesopotamian temple to worship
What is a Zigguart
What is a hierarchy?
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
Exchange of goods and services without using money is called what?
What is Barter
The fertile crescent?
what is the land that was good for crops to grow
The importance of Cuneiform
What is the first ever written language
The beliefs, customs, foods, traditions, education, arts, and behaviors of a group of people
What is Culture
The principle of Hammurabi's code
an eye for an eye
A person who wrote
the name for good soil?
what is silt
Mesopotamia is home to this first city state
What is Sumer
The invention that allows for easier transportation
What is the wheel
The person at the top of the Social Structure pyramid
the way empires grow their land
what is conquering lands
The signifigance of the epic of Gilgamash
first ever written piece of literature
The Emperor of the Akkadian Empire
Who is Sargon
type of people would be found in the lowest level of a stratified society?
who are slaves
Ways to control water
What is irrigation?
the two ways people controlled water
What are dams and canals
The two rivers bordering Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
what is an empire
What did the people of Mesopotamia believe caused illnesses and disease, and crop failure?
what is angry gods
the economy of Mesopotamia
What is trade
Cunieform, zigguarts, epic of gilgamash are examples of
What are achievements of Mesoptamia