Geography
The two rivers that are found in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
A king of ancient Sumer who had the first book written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
What is the division of labor?
What is a ziggurat?
Who were the gods?
A system of bringing water to farms to improve agriculture.
What is irrigation?
The name of a person who is the leader of a kingdom or empire.
What is a monarch?
This word means the countryside.
What is rural?
This invention helped people to carry heavy objects and would one day be important for machines like cars.
What is the wheel?
A person who leads religious ceremonies.
What is a priest?
The mountains to the north of Mesopotamia where much of the water for the area comes from.
The founder of the Akkadian Empire, the first empire in human history.
Who is Sargon?
What is urban?
The Mesopotamians are famous for inventing this first system of writing, which used a stylus and clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The goddess of love and war.
Who is Inanna?
The desert to the south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Syrian Desert?
A person who's job is to write cuneiform.
What is a scribe?
Different peoples and cultures being ruled by one leader is known as this.
What is an Empire?
This is one of the earliest systems of written law, known for the infamous expression "an eye for an eye".
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The lord of air.
The sea on the western end of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
According to legend, this man built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The city and all of the land surrounding the city.
What is a city-state?
This machine was useful for planting seeds and farming in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the plow?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?