Advancements
The people of Mesopotamia invented a way of documenting their laws, taxes, books, and religious scripts through a baked clay tablet and wedged tool?
What is Cuneiform?
The Greeks spoke of a land located between two rivers called Mesopotamia; what are the names of those rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
The famous legend of the King of Ur who challenged the gods and chased immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, a city rich in architecture and trade, unfortunately it is now lost to history after its walls fell during the Gutian invasion.
What is Akkad?
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
Double Jeopardy: What city-state is the oldest city-state of Sumer?
What is Eridu?
When was the Empire of Akkad founded
2334 B.C.E.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: These centers were a blending of religious and scientific learning. Where people documented knowledge and set the foundation of mathematics for future societies.
What are ziggurats?
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 Empire language was spoken in Northern Mesopotamia? Where most people made a living as mercenaries through conquest.
What are the Assyrians?
The Sumer empire established numerous independent cities in Southern Mesopotamia including; Kish, Uruk, Ur, and Umma. They were led by these military leaders.
What are Lugals?
The Fertile Crescent is also referred to as the "_____________" because of being the home to many early civilizations.
"Cradle of Civilization"
The period in history when people began using smelted tin and copper, to make a more durable and stronger metal.
The Bronze Age
The ancient civilization Sumer, located in Southern Mesopotamia is now what modern-day country?
Iraq
Double Jeopardy: A code of Babylonian laws & justice system. Inspired by the Sumerian-Akkadian Law Code Ur-Nammu.
What is Hammurabis' Code?
These two Southern Sumerian cities, are significant for being the first true urban centers with early characteristics of civilization and development of economic trade.
What are Ur & Uruk?
Priests would use this science to study the movements of the celestial bodies, planets, stars, and the physical universe to get better connections to the Gods
This crucial advancement for agriculture was developed by Sumerians based off of Egyptian technology and is a system for farming which brings water from rivers through cannals dug up.
What is an Irrigation system?
Mesopotamia featured a dry, arid plateau, extensive sea marshes and swampy areas, and what mountains that was home for the Gutian tribe civilization.
The Zagros Mountains Iran
This priestess was the first woman in recorded history to be known how to read and write.
Who is Enheduanna?
This Mesopotamian city housed one of the Ancient Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines.
What is Babylon?
These spiritual doctors used a variety of healing techniques ranging from spells, magical incantations, exorcism and ritual.
Who is an Asipu?
Ancient Mesopotamians developed a enlightened mathematical system, utilizing a base-60 number system also called what?
Sexagesimal Number System
List all 9 modern countries in the Fertile Crescent?
What are Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, and Egypt, along with portions of Turkey and Iran?
The Goddess of Love, Fertility, and War who sought to seduce King Gilgamesh. She would later send a heavenly bull to destroy Ur, when the King denied her.
Who is the Goddess Ishtar?
This city is often mentioned in the Bible and Mesopotamian Epics. It is the Birthplace of Abraham the father of the Israelite nation, the recipient of God's covenant, and an important figure for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam the ancestor of world's biggest religions
Judaism (Jewish), Christianity (Christians), & Islam (Muslims)
What is Ur?
This old man survived both the Biblical Flood and the floods in the Epic of Gilgamesh, he also explained the truth about immortality to King Gilgamesh.
Double Points: For his Sumerian name
Who is Noah or Utnapishtim?