First Civilization Mesopotamia

having to do with soldiers, weapons, or war

• military

• Persian Gulf

• merchant

• scribe

an amount that is left over after a need has been met

• ziggurat

• surplus

• polytheism

• military

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• silt

• Tigris

• City-state

• Akkad

Babylonian king who is known for creating a strict set of laws

• Cuneiform

• Akkad

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Hammurabi

one of the two parallel rivers between which Mesopotamia began

• Persian Gulf

• Cuneiform

• Tigris

• ziggurat

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top

• ziggurat

• Cuneiform

• Hittites

• scribe

a people to the north of Assyria, who had mastered iron production

• Babylonians

• Sumerians

• Hittites

• Chaldeans

a belief in more than one god

• theology

• monotheism

• scribe

• polytheism

a system of writing developed by the Sumerians

• Cuneiform

• scribe

• priests

• ziggurat

kingdom in Mesopotamia, conquered by Sargon

• Akkad

• Hittites

• Nineveh

• Tropical