Africa and Mesopotamia Quiz

South West Asia

  two rivers that form the outside border of Mesopotamia

He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.

an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

Belief in many gods

    Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

  The Sumerians, Egyptians, and Americans all built different types of this kind of structure because they all had a heavily centralized governments with emperors who were seen as closely tied to religion or were even seen as gods.

a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C.

   of or passed down by inheritance from an ancestor; transmitted from parent to child

Empire an extensive g

  Allowed upper class Sumerians to maintain power in society.

    Along the Nile River

Belief in many gods

Merchants, farmers, fishers, artisans

A pyramid shaped temple tower

extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

Belief in one god

Belief in many gods

belief in 2 gods