Vocabulary
This was a temple where Sumerians believed the gods and goddesses ruled the city.
What is a ziggurat.
What is the fertile crescent.
This group of people were the most important group of people in Mesopotamia.
This individual wrote the first set of laws.
This is considered one of the most important inventions of all time.
This type of person moved from place to place to find the resources they needed to survive.
What is a nomad.
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
This group of people lived near the ziggurat and worked for the nobles.
What were the commoners.
The Code of Hammurabi was considered this type of law.
What is an eye for eye rule.
In this first creation of the Mesopotamians they used a set of lines and triangles to communicate.
What is the first written language or cuneiform.
This referred to a group of people that worshipped multiple gods.
What is polytheistic.
Mesopotamia was located near this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
What was 90%
An epic poem was written about this king and his best friend.
Who was Gilgamesh.
What is clay and a stylus.
These were considered the basic units of Sumerian society.
What is a city-state.
This allowed the Mesopotamians to bring water to their fields when they needed it.
What was irrigation.
This group of people worked on big building projects for the nobles.
In Hammurabi's code it was often up to what to determine if someone was innocent or guilty.
What was the river.
What is the sailboat.
What is patriarchal.
This is the term that refers to what happens when there is a surplus of food so people were able to begin taking on other forms of work or trades.
What is a division of labor.
These people were skilled in specific trades such as weaving and pottery.
What were craftsman.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was on a search for this.
What was immortality.
Sumerians developed a math system based on this number.
What is 60.