Mesopotamia

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

• Alphabet

• surplus

• Cuneiform

• Gilgamesh

Religious belief in more than one god.

• monotheism

• Cuneiform

• ancestor-worship

• polytheism

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

The rivers that enclosed the Fertile Crescent.

• The St. Johns River

• The Tigris and Euphrates River

• The Banana River

• The Monongahela River

The belief in many gods

• Polytheistic

• Montheistic

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

What is a man made watering system such as a dam, ditch, or canal called?

• irrigation

• scribe

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

What is a scribe?

• belief in more than one god/goddess

• person who keeps written records

• government where a king rules with absolute power

• various jobs people do within their community