Sunday, Monday Flashcards
How many days are there in the week ?
Seven
What were the names of the two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia is Greek for what?
The land between the rivers
Great cities laid out with long what?
Straight streets, tall houses, palaces and temples
What was the greatest city on earth?
Babylon
What was the second greatest city called?
Nineveh
Blank was the capital for Babylonians?
Babylon
Who was in charge of the Assyrians?
Nineveh
Many blank and many blank held power at different times?
Tribes and Kings
Who were the three most important groups/tribes?
Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians
In Egyptian culture they had blank?
Towns, Noblemen, Temples, and
Priests , Administrators ,Artists,
Kings, Tradesmen ,Writing and Technical Skills
Sumerians were ahead of the what?
Egyptians
People learned how to shape blank from blank?
Bricks from Clay
People learned how to build houses and temples by?
3100 BC
Where can you find the largest mounds?
The city of Ur
A region in the Middle East is know called what?
Iraq
The Tigris and Euphrates join together and flow out to where?
Persian Gulf
Mesopotamia is not in Africa but where?
Asia
If you dig through bricks and rubble, you meet blank?
Stout and high walls
Cuneiform means what?
Wedge Shaped