Agricultural areas with a walled city in the center of the region, ruled by its own government led by a king.

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

The belief that kings were part man and part god.

In the Persian Gulf is where they found ancient ruins underground, archaeologists did lots of _____________ down, by the Euphrates River

Written language that evolved from pictographs to phonographs.

A religious belief in more than one god.

One of the oldest-surviving and most famous stories about a demigod king.

Ancient Mesopotamia started out as a:

Mesopotamia had very fertile soil because of:

The name of the King who was the first to unify all of Mesopotamia was:

Which of these leaders of empires came first?

People who went to school to learn to read and write in cuneiform were known as:

To ensure that his people could see it, Hammurabi had his code posted in his cities on large stone pillars called:

The order of the four empires of Mesopotamia went like this:

Dams, levees, canals, ditches, and aqueducts were all things created by the ancient Sumerians to help with:

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh travels the world and has great adventures with his best friend named:

To have more than you need of a resource is a:

________________ was ancient writing, that tells us Sumer's city-states were always fighting

The meaning of the word “Mesopotamia” is: