Geography
The body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The type of religion practiced by the Mesopotamians.
What is polytheistic?
A piece of farm equipment that was invented by the Mesopotamians.
What is the plow?
Three nicknames for Mesopotamia.
What are the Cradle of Civilization, the Fertile Crescent, and the Land Between The Rivers?
The two main crops grown by the Mesopotamians.
What are wheat and barley?
The person at the top of the social pyramid in Mesopotamia.
Who is the king?
The region that Mesopotamia was located in.
What is the Middle East.
A religious temple built to honor the Mesopotamian gods and the only person who was allowed to enter it.
What is a ziggurat and a priest?
The title of the first story ever written.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The Mesopotamian king who created the first empire.
Who is King Sargon?
Mesopotamia's main trading partners
Who were Egypt, Greece, and Pakistan.
This social class is slightly above slaves on the Mesopotamian social pyramid.
Who are farmers?
The rivers that Mesopotamia developed between.
What are the Tigris and Euprates?
How the Mesopotamians kept the gods appeased (happy).
What are offerings and sacrifices left at the ziggurat?
The number of laws in Hammurabi's Code.
The four main empires/kingdoms of Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and the Akkadians.
A surplus of this enabled Mesopotamian cities to grow into trading centers.
What is wheat/barley?
The coin used by Mesopotamians.
What are shekels?
The geographical features that helped to protect Mesopotamia from invaders.
What are the Taurus and Zagros Mountains and the Syrian and Arabian Deserts.
The Mesopotamian god of the moon, god of the sun, and Babylonian king of the gods with his pet dragon.
Who are Nanna, Shamash, and Marduk?
The reasons that Mesopotamians invented irrigation.
What is to control flooding and bring water to crops.
This empire conquered the Mesopotamians.
Who is the Persian Empire?
Name three ways that the Mesopotamians transported goods.
What is by wheeled cart, by animal caravan, or by boat?
The modern-day countries that Mesopotamia was located in.
What is Iraq, Syria, Kuwait (and Turkey)?
Four things provided to the Mesopotamians by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What are fertile soil, transportation for trade, fresh water, and food?
The only person in Mesopotamia who could speak to the gods.
Who was the priest or priestess?
The reason that Mesopotamians first invented cunefiorm.
What is to keep records of crops and trade.
The first city-states of Mesopotamia formed in this region (direction).
What is the south?
The Mesopotamian social classes that were uneducated.
What are farmers and slaves and merchants and artisans?
They are responsible for producing the wealth of Mesopotamia.
Who are Merchants and Artisans?