Mesopotamia & Sumer
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| an independent city | ||
| Sumerian gods represented these | ||
| created the world's first empire-a leader - in ancient Mesopotamia | ||
| single ruler who holds complete power | ||
| 1st writing system-wedge-shaped | ||
| two rivers that form the outside border of Mesopotamia | ||
| arc of good farmland in SW Asia | ||
| First civilization-where writing was invented | ||
| system used to carry water from a river to crop fields | ||
| Hammurabi's greatest achievement-set of laws | ||
| belief in many gods | ||
| Babylonian idea that punishment should be equal to crime committed | ||
| date writing was invented | ||
| earliest rulers of Sumerian city-states | ||
| foreign empire who conquered Mesopotamia and ended its power forever | ||
| each city-state was surrounded by this for protection | ||
| two ways that Sumerians gained wealth | ||
| traditional story that uses gods and heroes to tell about people's beliefs | ||
| earliest form of writing; used pictures to represent objects | ||
| king who ruled the New Babylonians | ||
| mythical Sumerian king who searched for immortality-one of ancient Mesopotamia's most legendary historical figures | ||
| early writing tool used to make cuneiform | ||
| gifts of food, wine, and other valuables to a god | ||
| three Mesopotamian civilizations, in the order that they rose to power | ||
| a professional writer in the ancient world | ||
| greatest ruler of the babylonian Empire; he expanded and united the Empire. King | ||
| Sumerian invention that improved land trade | ||
| the land between the rivers | ||
| Mesopotamia is where the world's first civilization began | ||
| raised areas of earth created to hold back floodwaters | ||
| to water crops | ||
| a Sumerian temple | ||
| a wedged shaped instrument made out of a reed, used in cuneiform writing | ||
| a Sumerian school where young boys learned reading, writing and arithmetic | ||
| a collection of kingdoms under the power of one powerful ruler |