Mesopotamia Flashcards
Who is Enki
The god of Winter
What is a ziggurat
Structure built in mesopotamia
lunar calendar
Calendar for the moon
Empire
People that rule a country for generations
cultural diffusion
spreading out, merging different cultures
What is astronomy
Study of the stars
David, Moses, Solomon, Abraham
people in the bible and the torah
What is the torah
Important jewish scroll
Tyre
Ancient Phonecian part of southern part of lebanon
What is Mesopotamia
The middle east today
Moral
Ethics of life
hierarchy
Social Status
Cuneiform
Writing used and created by the sumerians
What did the Phoenicians/Lydians colonize?
They Colonized North africa, Italy and spain
Hebrew
Jewish people today
Mesopotamias English translation
The land between the two rivers
Where phonecia had colonized
Italy, North Africa, Spain
Two kingdoms that divided the early hebrews
Judah and Israel
Lage structure in Mesopotamia used to worship a god
Ziggurat
What broke up mesopotamia into 2 epochs
The great flood
Mesopotamia was a good place to live because,
Fertile land and rivers for transportation
What kept Jews in captivity for 50 years?
New babylon
What objects were traded by the phenicians
Lumber and dyes
What did Sumerian boys learn in school?
Religion, arithmetic and songs
Why were the Phoenicians and Lydians so special?
The Lydians developed a market economy. Phoenicians traded dyes to make money.
Some examples of Sumerian architect achievement
Arches and Ziggurats
Why the Sumerians were constantly invaded are
Not isolated
Describe at least three ways a river had an impact on early societies & more specifically, Mesopotamia.
Fertile land, Good soil for farming, Travel and trade
Another name for the fertile crescent and what it means
The land between the two rivers
