3 Ancient Mesopotamia

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Geography

means between the rivers

what was the land around the Tigris and Euphrates river

regular blank provided fertile silt for farmland but was unpredictable

Mesopotamia

fertile crescent

flooding

Farming Advances

farmers build blank and blank to control seasonal floods

use blank to bring water to their fields

this allows farmers to grow enough food to support a

dams and channels

irrigation

large population

Geography

means between the rivers

what was the land around the Tigris and Euphrates river

regular blank provided fertile silt for farmland but was unpredictable

Mesopotamia

fertile crescent

flooding

Farming Advances

farmers build blank and blank to control seasonal floods

use blank to bring water to their fields

this allows farmers to grow enough food to support a

dams and channels

irrigation

large population

Sumer

first major what in Mesopotamia

organized into independent

civilization

city states

social structure

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Cultural Achievements

made

music using

the blank what a long poem about

jewelry and sculptures

flutes and stings

Epic of Gilgamesh

Religion

belief in many gods

religious leaders also lead government

large pyramid like temple at city’s center

polytheistic

theocracy

ziggurat

Cuneiform

writing system called cuneiform

blank shapes

uses symbol for 3 things

written on

Pictographic

wedge

pictures sounds ideas

clay tablets

Tech

used basic what(2)

first to use

math and geometry

wheeled carts

Invaders

Sumerians overtaken by who

Around 1990 the blank rose to power

later Babylonians took control of what

Akkadians

Assyrians

Mesopotamia

Hammurabi

blank king

controls all of blank

Known for Hammurabis Code 1st

quote

Babylonian

Mesopotamia

written doe of laws

eye for eye

Later Empires

Blank empire rises again before

Neo-Babylonian or blank empire comes to power

King blank has the great Hanging Gardens of Babylon built

Assyrian

Chaldean

Nebuchanezzar

Persian Empire

Founded in 6th Century BC by

Becomes the largest what the world has seen

Cyrus the Great

empire