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Mesopotamia Review
Question | Answer |
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Which two land features gave Mesopotamia its name? | Tigris & Euphrates River |
Why did Mesopotamians build canals? | Control the river's flow |
Who was the link between the Sumerians and the gods? | priests |
Form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols | Cuneiform |
Main reason the ziggurats were tall | to honor the gods |
Why did Mesopotamians build walls around the city? | to protect the people from attack |
Technology the Hittites & Assyrian used in battle | iron weapons and chariots |
Group of people that grew more powerful due to trad rather than fighting | Phoenicians |
Item that Phoenicians used for trading | cedar wood |
This person's army defeated all the city-sates of Sumer and conquered northern Mesopotamia | Sargon I |
legendary Sumerian literature figure | Gilgamesh |
What was located in the Sumerian city centers | temples |
After the the death of Sargon which city-state rose to power? | Ur |
set of letters that can be combined to form words | alphabet |
wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart | chariot |
ruler of a kingdom or empire | monarch |
long poems that tell the story of a hero | epic |
picture symbols used for written communications | pictographs |
division of society by rank or class | social hierarchy |
worship of many gods | polytheism |
located in the countryside | rural |
way of supplying water to an area of land | irrigation |
large arc of farmland | Fertile Crescent |
city area | urban |