Rulers
I was a Babylonian King
Who is HAMMURABI?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a Ziggurat?
I created the world’s first empire.
Who was Sargon?
We were allowed to go to school in Mesopotamia.
Who are upper class boys?
I was the civilization led by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonia?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
A professional writer.
What is a scribe?
Finish this law from Hammurabi: “If a man put out the eye of another man, his __________________.”
What is his eyes shall be put out?
List all of the social-classes from the highest to the lowest
The king, the priests, the scribes, the merchants and artisans, the farmers and the slaves.
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god, government and religion?
What is a city-state?
In the social hierarchy, these people are compared to kings and are leaders in the Ziggurats.
Who are priests?
This was the first writing system of any time period.
What is Cuneiform?
Most people in the first city-states in Sumer were ______?
This civilization was a crossroads of trade because of its central location.
What is Babylon?
This was created because this rulers wife felt homesick.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Why did Mesopotamian leaders order walls to be built around their city-states?
What is from protection from invaders?
Without the Mesopotamian invention of the ______, we may not have cars, bicycles, or even trains.
What is the wheel?
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
When the Sumerians invented irrigation, they were able to grow crops. List 5 crops grew?
Ancient Mesopotamia is known as what modern day country?
What is Iraq?