Geography
Mesopotamia was located in this region known for its rich farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This was the large religious structure found in Sumerian city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
This Sumerian invention made transportation easier.
What is the wheel?
This Babylonian king created one of the ancient world's best-known collections of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Code of Hammurabi was a collection of these.
What are laws?
These two rivers were extremely important to Mesopotamian civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Ziggurats were mainly connected to this part of Sumerian life.
What is religion/worship?
This was the Sumerians' system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
Hammurabi's laws were collected together under this famous name.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Hammurabi ruled this Mesopotamian civilization.
What is Babylon?
People settled near rivers mainly because they provided this important resource for farming.
What is water?
Sumerians believed in many gods. This belief is called this.
What is polytheism?
Cuneiform is considered the first form of this major human achievement.
What is writing?
Gilgamesh was the legendary king of this Sumerian city-state.
What is Uruk?
The Code of Hammurabi established rules and these for people who broke them.
What are punishments/consequences?
This term describes a person who moves from place to place rather than living permanently in one location.
What is a nomad?
Farmers, fishermen, and crafters who worked for nobles and palaces belonged to this social group.
Who were commoners?
This invention helped people transport goods more easily and changed trade and transportation.
What is the wheel?
This Babylonian king is remembered for creating a famous collection of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Tigris and Euphrates helped Mesopotamians grow crops by supplying this.
What is water?
Mesopotamia is often called this because of the important early civilizations that developed there.
What is the Cradle of Civilization?
Put these groups in order from highest to lowest: commoners, enslaved people, nobles.
Who are nobles → commoners → enslaved people?
Around 3300–3000 BC, the development of this technology allowed Sumerians to record information.
What is writing/cuneiform?
The famous story about Gilgamesh is known by this title.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Name three major characteristics or achievements of Mesopotamian civilization found on your study guide.
Possible answers: cuneiform/writing, wheel, ziggurats, Code of Hammurabi, farming near the Tigris and Euphrates, social hierarchy, polytheism.