Terms
What is irrigation?
This group made up the lowest group in Mesopotamian life.
What are slaves?
What is constantly being at war?
This geographic feature was relied on for many Mesopotamian city-states.
What are rivers?
The equipment used for taking city-states.
What is siege equipment?
The record keepers that kept track of parts of everyday lives.
What are scribes?
This material is what many towns were built out of.
What is mud brick?
The first Sumerian kings were most likely made up of this group.
Who were war heroes?
The land around Sumerian city-states was this way.
What is mostly desert and barren?
The contraption that uses horses, ropes, and a wheeled platform.
What is a Chariot?
Groups of traveling merchants that brought goods for trade.
What are caravans?
This group made up the highest class in society.
The group that revolted against the Assyrians.
Who were the Chaldeans?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This alloy was rare and coveted by the different groups in Mesopotamia.
What is Bronze?
The rough definition of empire.
What is a group of many different lands under one ruler?
The highest point of the Mesopotamian city-states.
What is the ziggurat?
The way that the Assyrian Empire would control its lands.
What are tributes?
This land includes parts of modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This metal was stronger than Bronze and helped the Assyrians Conquer Mesopotamia.
What is Iron?
The rough definition for city-states.
What is an independent city that had its own government and was not part of any larger government?
Who is Hammurabi?
The name of the group that rose from the Chaldeans.
Who were the Babylonians?
The modern day region that Mesopotamia is located in.
What is the Middle East?
The name of the writing system created by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?