[M1S1] Flashcards
ancient mesopotamia came from the greek meaning what?
between two rivers
Was an ancient region located in the eastern
Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros
mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia was part of what?
Fertile Crescent (Cradle of Civilization)
what are the two rivers in modern-day Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria, Turkey, and Iran
Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
around what time did early civilizations begin to form?
Neolithic Revolutions (Stone Age) - 12,000BCE
Major Mesopotamian civilizations includes what
Sumerians,
Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian.
inventions during ancient mesopotamia
● wheels ● chariot ● animal domestication ● agriculture ● weaponry ● wine ● common tools (hunting) ● sailboat ● map ● astronomy and astrology ● mathematics
what did the sumerians introduce?
the very first style of writing known as Cuneiform
this was created in order to maintain business
cuneiform
what was one of the world’s first
piece of literature written in cuneiform?
The Epic
of Gilgamesh
Around 3000 BCE, the Sumerians had significant cultural
interchange with a group in northern Mesopotamia known
as what?
akkadians
Akkadians is named after what?
the city-state Akkad
These languages are known
as Semitic languages.
Hebrew and Arabic language
Assyria had become a major empire after what?
collapse of Akkadian Empire
For 1400 years from the late twenty-first century BCE until
the late seventh century BCE, Assyrians were the
dominant power where?
in Mesopotamia, especially in the north
