Geography
Mesopotamia was located in this modern day country.
What is Iraq?
A group of people living together and working together for the purpose of creating an organized and better way of life is called a ______________.
What is a civilization?
This system was invented by Sumerians and allowed them to be great farmers.
What are irrigation systems?
King Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt this city and made it glorious after conquering the Assyrian empire.
What Babylon?
This group of people valued war and conquest and used iron weaponry.
Who are the Assyrians?
One of the world's first civilizations arose in Mesopotamia- which means __________ _________ _________ __________
What is a land between two rivers?
Sumerian cities developed into these self-governing regions that included a city and its surrounding area,
What are city-states?
This made business dealings and record keeping easier.
What is cuneiform?
He ruled the kingdom of Babylonia and created the first written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
King Nebuchadnezzar collected this to create a glorious city and a well trained army.
What are taxes and tribute?
These two bodies of water provided fresh water sources for all of the civilizations in the Mesopotamia area.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Sumerian's artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this social class.
What is the middle class?
This was a pyramid- shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
_________________ was a hero of an epic and traveled the world doing good deeds..
Who is Gilgamesh?
This group rebelled against the Assyrians and took back their land.
Who are the Chaldeans?
The Fertile Crescent got its name from this.
What are its rich soil and quarter moon-like shape?
Sumerians used this math concept to measure the sizes of their fields.
What is geometry?
Name 4 Sumerian inventions.
wheel, sailboat, potter's wheel, cuneiform, calendar,
This ruler ordered the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to be built.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
____________ was the site of the world's first library.
What is Nineveh?
This deposited silt along the land in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the yearly floods?
Literature, medical records and other documents were preserved because _________ recorded this information on cuneiform on clay tablets.
What are scribes?
All of the people of Mesopotamia believed in many gods. This is known as _________.
What is polytheism?
This Akkadian King created the world's first empire and united the city-states of Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon?
This is the grandest city built after the Amorites conquered Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?