Duplicate of Mesopotamia Review

Sumerians exchanged wheat, barley, and tools for ______.

What do you call a wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle?

What do you call a skilled worker that makes a product to sell?

The Sumerian number system was based on the number seventy.

A partnership against a common enemy is ___________.

Mesopotamians did not believe the gods guided their daily lives.

What are soldiers on horseback called?

The half-mile road leading up to the Gates of Ishtar lined with mosaics of lions is the ____.

What job did most people have in Mesopotamia?

What are soldiers on chariots called?

____ means relating to soldiers, arms, or war.

What do you call pictures carved in such a way that the figures stand out from the background?

Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

What is an independent state that includes a city and the surrounding area?

The belief in many gods is called _____.

The first empire was the ________ Empire.

Who was in the upper class in ancient Mesopotamia?

____ means having many parts, details or ideas.

What do you call a person who makes money by selling goods?

What is a huge pyramid-shaped temple of Mesopotamia?

What do you call a territory governed as a political district of a country or empire?

Sumerian inventions include writing, the wheel, and the calendar.

What is the name of the Mesopotamian poem that tells the story of one man's quest for immortality?

What was the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia?

A leader of the Akkadians who overran the Sumerian city-state and set up the first empire was ____.

What is the division of labor among specific, skilled jobs that contribute to the community?

The Code of Hammurabi was written on the ____.

What do you call a cube-shaped Sumerian writing tool?

What is having more food than what is needed?

What modern day country is not in Mesopotamia?

Only priests were allowed into the top of a ziggurat.

The main crops in Sumer were ___, ___, and ____.

What is an organized list of laws and rules called?

A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero is a(n) _____.

What do you call the set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon?

The Library of Nineveh which contained over 20,000 organized tablets was from the ______ Empire.

A government system with a king or queen is called an aristocracy.

The Assyrian Empire was the first empire.

Sumer was the first civilization in Mesopotamia.

What are soldiers on foot called?

What is a state in which a single ruler controls several kingdoms or territories?

What do you call a round piece of carved stone that produces an image rolled onto clay?

What is a military vehicle with a tall tower and battering ram used to take down city walls called?

A person who studies planets and stars is called a(n) _____.

What did the Mesopotamians use to sign their name and mark documments?

Who was in the lower class in ancient Mesopotamia?

What is the raising and taming of wild animals?

Who in Mesopotamia could read and write and set up schools to teach others?

Sumer's most important contribution is ________.

There were 4 social classes in Mesopotamia.

Each city-state had its own government.

Nebuchadnezzar was the ruler of the Akkadian Empire.

What do you call a forced payment made to a ruler or state as a sign of surrender?

What was the religion of Mesopotamia?

Gilgamesh's enemy turned friend was named ____.

Sumerian city-states were ____ each other.

What is supplying water to the land through a system of canals or ditches?

Who was the king of Assyria who built the world's first library or zoo?

What do you call the division of a society based on job, wealth and status?

Which was not an invention of the Mesopotamians?

Ziggurats had a temple at the bottom.

What was the largest empire of Mesopotamia that took control with new methods of warfare?

Trade means to exchange goods or services.

____ controls the flow and direction of water for farming.

What do you call a geographic area?

A group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels, is a ______.

The season of floods is _____.

What is the later part of Stone Age when people lived by agriculture and domestication?

What is the name of the Babylonian king who built the Hanging Garden of Babylon?

Who was the King of Babylon who created a set of law codes?

What was the most important reason why the Assyrian Empire was so successful?

Who was the legendary king of Uruk in the epic?

Mesopotamian slaves included ____, ____, and ____.

Sumerians used writing for ____.

A stylus was made from a reed.