Mesopotamia 1

the act of supplying dry land with water

• ziggurat

• irrigation

• empire

• Mesopotamia

creator of the world's first empire

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Shamshi-Adad

• Nebuchadnezzar

a group of people who wander from place to place

• epic

• ziggurat

• nomad

• scribe

an epic Sumerian King who was 2/3 god and 1/3 human

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Gilgamesh

• Enkidu

professional writer of cuneifrom

• epic

• scribe

• nomad

• Hammurabi

the land between two rivers

• Mesopotamia

• empire

• Egypt

• Asia

a long poem that tells the story of a hero

• poem

• epic

• scribe

• Sargon

a temple shaped similar to a pyramid

• pyramid

• ziggurat

• nomad

• irrigation

a nation and the land it has conquered under one rule

• empire

• city-state

• Mesopotamia

• scribe

King of Babylonia who made the Hanging Gardens

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Gilgamesh