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Mesopotamia test

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Mesopotamia "land between rivers"
Where is Mesopotamia located? Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What present day country is located in Mesopotamia? Iraq
Mesopotamia is known as the land between the Mediterranean Sea in a huge arc to the Persian Gulf called what The Fertile Crescent
What was the climate in Mesopotamia? Hot and Dry mixed with seasonal flooding
How did the farmers control seasonal flooding? They built levees and developed irrigation systems in order to produce foods.
The Fertile Crescent helped society to change from what type of lifestyle? Nomadic (searching and wandering)
Fertile Cresent benefitted society because it allowed permanent food source, domesticated animals, make laws, expand religious beliefs, build ecomnomy,specialized jobs,create inventions to help citixens grow, develop a language and writing for better communication
Mesopotamia was not a civilization but a bunch of independent.... city-states
Each city-state had their own laws,languages, government, and religion
Who was the first to join together and take advantage of the fertile soil? The Sumerians
What did the Sumerians do which gave them a stable food suppply so everyone did not have to farm, fish, or hunt They built levees and irrigation canals
Sumerians were able to have other jobs such as: tradesmen, merchants, and government officials, and priests
The Sumerians invented a written language called cuneiform
Cuneiform was what type of writing simple and composed of pictures
What were the writers called and what instrument did they use? scribes and stylus (wedged instrument)
Name several Sumerian inventions: wheel, water clock, twelve month calendar, the plow and the sail boat
Who developed a numbering system based on the number 60 and it is used today to measure time The Sumerians
What is a wedge-shaped stone in an arch that causes the arch to lock together. keystone
Sumerians named their country Sumer
Sumerian temple in the center of the city-state Ziggurat
Ziggurats (temples) were surrounded by marketplaces courts and city buildings
What looked like pyramids but were flat on top and built on platforms Ziggurats
Who was from a small town in the Euphrates River called Babylon? The Amorites, a Semitic tribe from Syria
Who conquered all of Mesopatamia and his kingdom was known as Babylonia King Hammurabi of Babylon
Code of Hammurabi Eye for and eye adn a tooth for a tooth
Because of the code of Hammurabi, criminals were punished with the same crime they commited. It was not meant to be cruel but fair.
Babylonians studied Astronomy The study of the universe which includes the movement of the planets and stars
Astrology The belief that the positions and movements of the planets and stars can affect or predict life on Earth
Who came into power 1000 years after Hammurabi when Babylon was under Chaldean Empire after the Assyrian Empire Nebuchadnezzar II
Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World) Nebuchadnezzer II
The next great civilization after the Amorites (Babylonia) Assyrians
The Assyrians were from the upper Tigris River and their city-state was called: Assur
What civilization was more imitaters than innovators? They copied the the writing and traditions from earlier Fertile Cresent civilizations Assyrians
The Assyrians were also a Semitic speaking group who made a standing army, citizen-soldier fights in war then returns to his daily life after war , hired mercenaries (paid soldiers from other countries to fight for them)
Who invented the first library; a collection of 2000 clay tablets in cuneiform? Assyrians
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