Topic 1
What is Mesopotamia called because of its crescent shape?
Fertile Crescent
What river flows south from the mountains of the eastern Turkey?
Euphrates River
What river flows south from the mountains of the southwestern Turkey?
Tigris River
What mountain does the early Mesopotamian lived?
Zagros Mountain
What were created by the gods with human bodies and animal or bird heads.
Demons
What does Mesopotamia means in Greek?
between two rivers
What sea is important to the trade route?
Mediterrean Sea
What is the highest mountain in Zagros?
Mount Dena
What is the name oval shape sea?
The Black Sea
What do you call the Mesopotamian underworld?
Kur
A writing system invented in southern Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform
What does AD means in the time line?
Anno Domini
What gulf is also know as the Arabian Gulf?
Persian Gulf
What city in Mesopotamia is located along the Persian Gulf?
Sumer
Why do the tomb names start with the letters PG?
PG for 'private grave'
A scribe of a group of men at the Babylonian court who were experts in astronomy and astrology.
the scribes of Enuma Anu Enlil
What ocean do the Persian Gulf extends?
Indian Ocean
What ocean is where the Mediterrean sea is connected?
Atlantic Ocean
What is the two rivers in the Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Who excavated the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur.
C. Leonard Woolley
Who built a palace at Nimrud.
King Ashurnasirpal II
Who is a shepherd god who represents the harvest season but also became a god of the underworld thanks to the goddess Ishtar.
Dumuzi
How tall is Mount Dena?
14465 feet
What is the average depth of the Mediterrean Sea?
4900 feet
Who is the principal Assyrian god. He appears as a man wearing a horned cap.
Ashur