Answer | Question |
city-state | a city and all the countryside around it |
polytheism | the worship of many gods |
Fertile Crescent | rich, fertile farmland in the shape of an arc in the Middle East |
silt | soil left after flooding that's good for farming |
irrigation | a way of supplying water |
canals | human-made waterways |
surplus | more food and other items than needed |
civilization | a society that has developed systems of government, religion, and learning |
Mesopotamia | What means 'between the rivers' in Greek? |
Tigris and Euphrates | What forms the "Cradle of Civilization? |
near rivers | In what general kind of area did early people settle? |
Persian Gulf | Mesopotamia lies between Asia Minor and the __________ ___________. (what gulf) |
Mediterranean Sea | The Fertile Crescent extends from the Persian Gulf to the ___________ _________. (what sea) |
food surplus | Irrigation systems caused a ____________ ______________. |
canals, dams, and levees | What was built to aid in protecting the land from flooding? |
Hunter-gatherers | What kind of group first settled in Mesopotamia? |
barter | trading one product for another without the use of money |
Sumer | a land in Mesopotamia where the world's first civilization grew. |
ziggurat | the highest building in the city-state, built as a temple to the gods |
domesticate | changing plants and animals to make more useful to man |
agriculture | farming; the domestication of plants |
drought | a long period of dry weather |
famine | widespread lack of food because of drought |
Sargon the Great | Leader of the Akkadians |
scribes | The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what? |
archologists | Who excavated the areas and found the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia? |
cuneiform | A form of writing by the people of Sumer |
Iron | What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger? |
The Hanging Gardens | Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? |
Nebuchadnezzer | The Chaldean king who rebuilt Babylon |
astronomer | Who is a person who studies the stars and planets called |
Hammurabi | Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life? |
Epic of Gilgamesh | Ancient Mesopotamian poem about a king and hero who travels the world. |