Advancements
The people of Mesopotamia invented what architectural curve with mudbricks?
The arch
The Greeks spoke of a land located between two rivers called Mesopotamia; what are the names of those rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
This ancient Mesopotamian writing system was created using clay tablets and reed styluses is called what?
Cuneiform
What city-state is the oldest city-state of Sumer?
Eridu
The word Mesopotamia means what in Greek?
"Between two rivers"
The invention of what in 3000 B.C.E. led to the transport of goods increasing in speed?
The wheel
This region which was home to some of the earliest human civilizations in Mesopotamia and is known for it's rich soil is called what?
The Fertile Crescent
What is the oldest known language in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Sumerian
The Sumer empire established numerous independent cities in Southern Mesopotamia including; Kish, Uruk, Ur, Sippar, Akshak, Larak, Nippur, Adab, Umma, Bad-tibira, Larsa, and what other city-state?
Lagash
While Mesopotamia has few amounts of stone and wood for building materials, they instead built with ______ that were baked in the sun?
Mudbricks
This crucial advancement for agriculture was developed by Sumerians based off of Egyptian technology and is a system for farming.
Irritation system
This ancient empire was located on the flat, open land of Mesopotamia, north of the Sumerian city-states.
Akkadian Empire
What dialect of the Akkadian language was spoken in Southern Mesopotamia?
Babylonian
This Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia was very powerful and is known for its dominant force in the region.
Kish
Which B.C.E. millennia was the birth of this early civilization?
3000 B.C.E.
Mesopotamians made detailed observations of the night sky, mapping the constellations, and predicting eclipses, developing what based on the lunar cycle?
The Solar calendar
The ancient civilization Sumer, located in Southern Mesopotamia is now what modern-day country?
Iraq
Some Semitic languages in this region include; Arabic, Akkadian, Aramaic, Babylonian, Canaanitic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Syriac, and ________.
Assyrian
This city-state of Sumer was named after the Sumerian moon god named Nanna, which city-state is it?
Ur
The Fertile Crescent is also referred to as the "_____________" because of being the home to many early civilizations.
"Cradle of Civilization"
Ancient Mesopotamians developed a enlightened mathematical system, utilizing a base-60 number system also called what?
Sexagesimal Number System
Mesopotamia featured a dry, arid plateau, extensive sea marshes and swampy areas, and what mountains that was home for the Elamite civilization.
The Zagros Mountains or (mountains of Elam)
Sumerian was a liturgical language, a scholarly language, and what other language before it became a spoken language?
Agglutinative language
This city-state in ancient Mesopotamia was known as a cult center for the god Tammuz and was part of the network of Sumerian city-states.
Bad-tibira
Mesopotamian burial practices varied across time and regions, but deceased children were sometimes placed in what and kept within family chapels?
Large jars