The Fertile Crescent
These two land features gave Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
City-states wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
Why did city-states fight each other over farmland?
A form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is Cuneiform.
Cedar wood.
For what resource was Phoenicia most well known?
The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on this factor.
What is military strength?
They needed a way to control the river's flow.
Why did the Mesopotamians build canals?
They served as a link between the Sumerians and the gods.
What are priests.
The buildings that dominated Sumerian city centers.
What are ziggurats?
Both of these kings built up Babylon.
Who are Hammurabi and Nebechadnezzar?
If educated, they could also be important Sumerian religious figures.
What are women?
When hunter-gathers first settled in Mesopotamia.
What is 12,000 years ago?
The Syrian Desert desert did not have enough good farmland.
What factor may have limited the growth of Sargon's empire?
Sumerians used these to make sharp tools to make symbols on clay tablets.
What are reeds?
The Phoenician alphabet spread along their trade routes.
What was the relationship between trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
Located in the countryside.
What is rural?
A large arc of farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
It fought with other surrounding city-states.
What did Sargon's empire have in common with other Mesopotamian city-states.
To honor the gods.
Why were ziggurats so tall?
These technologies were used by the Hittites and Assyrians in battle.
What are chariots and iron weapons?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation?
Who is Sargon?
Sumerian developed a math system based on this number.
What is 60?
Babylon was located near this present-day city.
What is Baghdad, Iraq?
A division of society by class or rank.
What is social hierarchy?
A king who became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Picture symbols used for written communication.
What are pictographs?
A ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
The city-state that rose to power after the death of Sargon I.
What is Ur?
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes.
What are epics?
A wheeled, horse-drawn cart.
What is a chariot?
A set of letters that can be combined to form words.
What is an alphabet?