Monotheism is the worship of one god; while this is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
Someone who writes and records information.
What is a scribe?
100
A set of letters that can be put together to make words.
What is an alphabet?
100
Waterways made by humans.
What are canals?
200
A way of supplying water to an area of land to water crops or steering it away to prevent flooding.
What is irrigation?
200
The opposite of rural (in the countryside) is...(in the city)
What is urban?
200
It is a writing system invented by the Sumarians that uses symbols to represent basic parts of words.
What is cuneiform?
200
Is the ruler of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
200
These religious leaders held a high place in Sumer's social hierarchy.
What are priests?
300
An arrangement where people had specialized jobs or tasks.
What is division of labor?
300
It is when society is divided by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
300
A long poem that tells the story of a hero.
What is an epic poem.
300
They conquered Mesopotamia.
Who are the Babylonians?
300
Land with different territories and people under a single rule.
What is en empire?
400
In Mesopotamia, this allowed cities to grow and develop because they did not have to hunt and gather for food because the soil was made fertile with the silt that was brought by the river.
What is farming?
400
It is the first complex, advanced society.
What is Sumer?
400
It is a pyramid shaped temple-tower.
What is a ziggurat?
400
It is the first collection of written laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The science of buildings.
What is architecture?
500
It is the rich, fertile farmland between the Tigris and Euphrates River, that includes Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
It is a political area that includes a city and the surrounding countryside.
What is city-state?
500
A legendary Sumarian hero who was the subject of a legendary epic poem.
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
Is the king that rebuilt Babylonia.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
The Hitites were skillful on the battlefield with iron weapons and this, which helped them conquer Babylonia.