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What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
land between two rivers
What were the first 4 empires of Mesopotamia?
Akkadians, Babylon, Assyrians, & Persians
Were Mesopotamia & Egypt both irrigation-based agriculture societies?
Yes
What kind of trade did Mesopotamia do?
Foreign trade
What were the names of the most important Mesopotamian gods?
Anu, Enlil, Marduk, Ishtar
What was the form of writing the Mesopotamians used?
Cuneiform
What were the 3 sciences that the Sumerians created?
Astrology, Astronomy, Mathematics
Describe how the the river civilizations benefitted from the rivers. What happened during spring?
Each spring with the ice melt, these rivers’ volumen increases and the waters overflow their Banks and fetilise the land with their mud or silt.
What year did writing first begin?
3,250 years ago
Where were hieroglyphics drawn?
on the walls of temples and tombs or papyrus
What was the paper called that the Egyptians used?
papyrus
Who created the first city-states?
the Sumerians
Who ruled Babylon?
Hammurabi
What was an important cultural impact that the kingdom of Babylon made?
Code of Hammurabi
Who conquered all the lands of Mesopotamia in 539 BC?
the Persians
