Geography
Early civilizations started around a...
What is a RIVER?
Invention of the ancient Sumerians that made transporting things easier.
What is the wheel?
___________ society was a patriarchy, or a society dominated by men.
What is at the Mesopotamia?
The people of ancient Mesopotamia believed in many gods.
What is polytheism?
In the social pyramid, due to their power and position in society, these people were placed at the top.
What are Kings?
What is cuneiform?
The punishment must for a crime should match the seriousness of the crime.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
To supply water to.
What is irrigation?
Form of government in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a monarchy?
Hammurabi's Code was carved on...
What are stone slabs?
Empire from Mesopotamia that developed a battering ram.
Who are the Assyrians?
What rivers left behind after they flooded that fertilized the soil.
What is silt?
a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is Ziggurat?
List four empires of Mesopotamia.
What are the
01) Akkadian Empire
02) Babylonian Empire
03) Assyrian Empire
04) Persian Empire
People who went to school to learn how to read and write.
What are scribes?
Two reason the empires of Mesopotamia declined.
What is: *death of original ruler weakens empire
*invasions/rebellions
*civil war
Sumerians thought that some ______ had power over part of nature, such as the rain or the wind.
What are Gods?
Political divisions used by the governments in Mesopotamia where a powerful city controlled itself and the territory around it.
What is a city-state?
The Code was used to keep track of... (3)
*To keep track of traded goods.
*To keep track of surplus crops.
*To keep records of taxes.
*To keep track of marriages.
*To protect wives from abuse by their husbands
The first Sumerian kings were probably
Who were war heroes?