Mesopotamia

Wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets. First writing system used by ancient people.

• Alphabet

• surplus

• Cuneiform

• Gilgamesh

A society controlled be men, or one that favors men, women had very few rights.

• empire

• patriarchal

• Fertile Crescent

• monarchy

Religious belief in more than one god.

• monotheism

• Cuneiform

• ancestor-worship

• polytheism

A wanderer, someone who travels place to place without a permanent residence.

• ziggurat

• nomad

• demigod

• Gilgamesh

A government where priests rule in the name of a god or gods.

• Fertile Crescent

• theocracy

• empire

• monarchy

Important king who developed an overarching set of laws for all citizens to follow.

• Hammurabi

• Sumer

• Tigris

• Euphrates

Land located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Assyria

• Fertile Crescent

• Sumer

• Babylon

The most important building in each city-state.

• Sumerian Hierarchy

• Assyria

• Ziggurat

• Nomad

The first detailed writing system

• pictograph

• Cuneiform

• Tigris

• Euphrates

Founded by Hammurabi.

• Cuneiform

• The Codes of Hammurabi

• Sumer

• Assyrian Empire