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

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

Consisted of priests, landowners, farmers and slaves.

• agriculture

• Fertile Crescent

• Sumerian Social Classes

• Ziggurats

The rivers that enclosed the Fertile Crescent.

• The St. Johns River

• The Tigris and Euphrates River

• The Banana River

• The Monongahela River

A group of city-states under a single authority.

• Fertile Crescent

• 12 City-states

• Empire

• The Sumerian Empire