the land between two rivers
Mesopotamia is also known as
Mesopotamia New Year
a festival that sacrificed a king to the gods. A person was usually chosen to be King for the Day for the special festival.
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia is part of an area called
clay
a natural resource that scribes wrote on
Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians
Name the 3 groups of Mesopotamians
Sumer
Babylon was once probably the area of
Akkad
first conquered all of Mesopotamia
skirts
men and women both wore
Merchants, scribes, and craftspeople
Who was in the middle of Mesopotamian society?
Polytheistic
Mesopotamians believed in many gods or were
ghosts and demons
Mesopotamians also believed in
wonder
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were an ancient
bulla, sailboat, arch, plow, wheel, and constellations
Mesopotamians were first at developing
builder and warrior
Characteristics of Gilgamesh
Persian King Cyrus
Who conquered Mesopotamia?
Ur
Sir Woolley excavated what Mesopotamian city?
Henry Rawlinson
Who deciphered cuneiform?
Characteristics of city-states
included city and surrounding villages/farmlands, each independent, priests ruled as religionand government were combined, ziggurat-with a city god, and have a market place
Standard of Ur
the earliest known detailed picture of an army. It includes 2 mosaic panels representing War and Peace
building walls
city-states protected themselves from nomads and others by
kings
ruled city-states
priests
pleased gods
Uruk
Gilgamesh was one of the first kings of the Sumerian city
An
father of all gods
Enlil
god of air
Enki
god of water
Abu
god of vegetation
Ninhursag
mother goddess
Ishtar
goddess of love
5 class levels
1. kings
2. government officials, large land owners, priests
3. merchants, scribes, artisans
4. farmers, herders
5. slaves, debtors
bulla
What did Sumerians use first to keep written records?
picture writing
What is pictographs?
600 symbols
Cuneiform was the first writing system and contained