ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• China
• India
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

Belief in more than one god

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Theology

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

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CCSS.RL.7.10

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CCSS.RL.7.5

Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped

• City-States
• Statues
• Churches
• Ziggurats

A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines. It originated in Mesopotamia.

• Heiroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Sumerian
• Sanskrit

A person who writes

• Author
• Scribe
• Hammurabi
• Illustrator

Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

Rule by one person, a king or queen

• Dictatorship
• Theorcracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Government that is controlled by religious leaders

• Monarchy
• Theocracy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

A belief in one God

• Gilgamesh
• monotheism
• polytheism
• scribe