1. Ancient Mesopotamia
Review

2. What do you call this region we Learned about?
The Fertile Crescent

3. What technology did the Hittites and Assyrians use in battle?
Iron weapons and Chariots

4. What two rivers made life in this area possible?
Tigris and Euphrates

5. What do you call an area of elevated flatland?
Plateau

6. What did Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar have in common?
They both built up Babylon

7. What is a drought?
A long period of dry weather

8. Who served as a link between the Sumerians and the Gods?
The Priests

9. What were some of the crops Mesopotamian farmers grew?
Beans, Onions, lettuce, cucumbers, apples and pomegranates

10. What was the name of the region in Southern Mesopotamia dotted with about a dozen cities?
Sumer

11. Name two things Mesopotamians have been credited for inventing
The wheel and Glass

12. What is cuneiform?
The system of writing invented in Sumer

13. True or false: A city-state is a self governing city that also governs surrounding villages

14. What is a Ziggurat?
A large building with a temple on its peak

15. What do you call it when people believe in many gods?
Polytheism

16. Provide at least two facts about Hammurabi

17. What is a code of law?
A written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government

18. What city state rose to power after the death of Sargon?Ur

19. Babylon was located near present day…
Baghdad

20. In 689 B.C. Babylon was destroyed by powerful rulers from a city called…
Nineveh

21. What do you call the belief in only one God?
Monotheism

22. THE END!