Politics
political unit with a city and the surrounding area
What is a City-State?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
One person trades lumber to another person for clothing.
What is the Barter System?
The first system of writing.
What is Cunieform?
This clogged up Mesopotamian irrigation canals.
What is silt?
territories and groups of people from different lands under a single rule
What is an Empire?
specialization of labor and social classes
What is social structure?
Overproduction of a good.
What is surplus?
A way to keep track of time. (Months)
What is the lunar calendar?
A problem that all four Mesopotamian empires had was difficulty in
society, culture, and way of life in a particular region
What is Civilization?
This person conquered the land of the Israelites and took many Israelites to Babylon as captives.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Mesopotamia is a dry climate. This was the way in which they overcame that in terms of farming.
What is irrigation?
A building used for religion in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a Ziggurat?
This place was the first to build city-states in the empire.
What is Sumer?
a famous collection of 282 written laws that governed Babylonian society
What is Hammurabi's Code?
the name of one of the oldest written stories in world history, which is about a superhuman king who fights demons for glory and wants to live forever
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Small, mud-brick houses at the edge of the city were the homes of
What are farmers?
This invention found by archaeologists shows that Sumerians were not prehistoric
What is writing?
The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was
What is the land between two rivers?
The creator of the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
This is the way the legal system of Babylon was more advanced than that of other societies at that time.
What are women's rights?
The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods, and services to meet people's needs and wants.
What is the economy?
Cuneiform, the written language of the Sumerians, was produced using this.
a wedge shaped stylus
were a wonder of the ancient world, planted high on the royal palace.
What are The Hanging Gardens of Babylon