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Mesopotamia means _________________.
What is "the land between two rivers?"
A type of religious temple found in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
This invention made farming much easier for Sumerians.
What is the plow (or irrigation)?
The name of the pointy stick used to write on clay-tablets.
What is a stylus?
A Sumerian King who established the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
Mesopotamia is located in current day ________.
What is Iraq, Syria (the Middle East)?
Producing more food that is needed to survive is a _____________.
What is surplus?
The ruler of Mesopotamia who used "an eye for an eye" to write his laws and punishments.
Who is Hammurabi?
An ancient city in Mesopotamia, the capital of Babylonia. The city was on the banks of the Euphrates River and was noted for its luxury, its fortifications, and, particularly, for its Hanging Gardens.
What is Babylon?
A government ruled by a king or a queen.
What is a monarchy?
The area fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the ___________.
What is Fertile Crescent?
Wedge-shaped letters on soft clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
A way of supplying water to an area of farmland.
What is irrigation?
A system in which different people complete different jobs.
What is Division of Labor (or specialized jobs)?
Sumerians relied on these people to gain the gods' favors.
Who are priests?
The Tigris and Euphrates dropped ___________, a rich mixture of rocks and soil, on the land after they flooded.
What is silt?
A person in Sumeria whose job it was to write.
What is a scribe?
People who hunt and gather and live life moving from place to place until natural resources are gone.
What are nomads?
A king of Uruk who became a legendary figure in an epic in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
A surplus of food in ancient Sumer allowed the Sumerians to do this.
What is develop trade or create specialized jobs?
Farmers in Mesopotamia reserved water for their fields by this innovation/achievement.
What is irrigation?
A belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
In Mesopotamia, a city and all the farmland surrounding it.
What is a city-state?
These people ruled Mesopotamia fiercely after the fall of Hammurabi.
Who are the Assyrians?
Name the order of the social structure of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is kings, priests, upper class, lower class, slaves?