Geography
What body of water runs through Ancient Mesopotamia?
Rivers
Monotheistic
What is cuneiform?
A written language
What is the name of the King?
Hammurabi
This job was at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
The slaves
What are the names of the Rivers in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
The belief in many gods.
Polytheistic.
This invention helped make it easier to move things.
The Wheel
King Hammurabi created this..
a code of laws
Name 1 Job in Ancient Mesopotamia
Merchant, Artisan, Farmer, Priest, King, Trader
A nickname for Mesopotamia.
The Fertile Crescent
The religious temple of the Ancient Mesopotamians.
A Ziggurat
Mesopotamia is best known for the first ever set of written ________.
Laws
Where was the king located on the Social Hierarchy?
The top
This person was responsible for writing written records.
A scribe.
What is the name of the vocabulary term that means "good for growing things"?
Fertile
Why was the Ziggurat built so high?
To bring the people closer to their gods.
This system was used to bring water from the rivers to the farm lands.
Irrigation
True or false, you can become a government official by going to school even if you were born poor.
False
Why is the dollar sign and arrow going down located near the social hierarchy?
The richest people were at the top and the poorest were at the bottom.
Mesopotamia does not exist anymore, but the land it was in still does. What country is this land called now?
Iran or Iraq
Who was more powerful, King Hammurabi or the gods?
The Gods
Cuneiform is made from a series of _________ and ______.
Lines and Wedges.
The language of the first ever written laws.
Cuneiform
This was the reason that the people could settle in Mesopotamia and no longer had to hunt and gather their food.
A surplus of food.