Vocab
This is a group of traveling merchants.
What is a caravan?
This Sumerian invention was used in carts and chariots.
What is the wheel?
This is one of the world's earliest written law codes.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This is the belief in many Gods and Goddesses.
What is polytheism?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
This is a group of lands or territories governed under one ruler.
What is an empire?
This advancement helped farmers get more water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
This king united Akkad and Sumer and formed the world's first empire.
What was Sargon?
This is when a society is dominated by men.
What is a patriarchy?
These 3 foods were the major crops of the Mesopotamian people.
What are wheat, barley, and dates?
After a flood, these nutrient-rich particles of soil replenish the land and help farmers by keeping the soil fertile.
What is silt?
This word comes from the Latin word meaning "wedge" and consists of 1,200 different characters.
What is cuneiform?
These are the three different groups that made up the Assyrian army.
What are the cavalry, infantry, and charioteers?
What are taxes?
Sumerians used this newly invented item to speed up the exchanged agricultural goods via river travel.
What is the sail?
The payments are collected by force from conquered people
What is a tribute?
The Sumerians recorded the world's oldest story, a long poem about a hero.
What is an epic?
The Chaldean Empire did this at the end of the Assyrian Empire's reign to help ensure the Assyrian Empire would never rise again.
What is burn down the Assyrian capital city (Nineveh)?
The very top of this building was considered sacred because this is where it was thought that the Gods lived.
What is a ziggurat?
Because stone and wood were in short supply, Sumerians used this as their main building material.
What are bricks made from mud?
These people trained for a long time to become official record keepers.
What are scribes?
The Sumerians developed a place value system based on this number. We can thank them for our time and circle measurements.
What is 60?
This was built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife because she missed the mountains and plants of her homeland.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
These three gods were called "the great gods" because they were the most important Gods to the Mesopotamian people.
Who was An, Enlil, and Ea?
The highest class of Mesopotamian society was made up this these 4 groups?
Who are the rulers, priests, government officials, and warriors?