Mesopotamia

2. What is the term for someone that learned how to write?
5. What technology did the Hittites and Assyrians use in battle? Iron weapons and ______.
6. Who invented the calendar, solved geometry, and studied the stars?
7. What is the name of the river to the north Mesopotamia?
8. What is the term for a group of lands all under the control of one person?
12. What is the term for the way of supplying water to an area of land?
14. Artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up which group?
15. What is the name of the man that created a code of 282 laws?
19. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was found in Babylon?
20. What is the name of the area that was also called the land between two rivers?
22. What is the term for a long poem that tells the story of a hero?
23. Name an advancement of the Hittites. (hint...it starts with c)

1. Who was at the top of the social class in Mesopotamia?
2. Who was at the bottom of the social class in Mesopotamia?
3. What is the term for the belief in many gods?
4. What is the term for a pyramid shaped temple that was built to honor the many gods?
6. What is the term for the world's first system of writing?
9. What did the Hittites become masters in that helped them to make strong weapons?
10. Mesopotamia is in present day _______. (a country)
11. Who was the King of the Chaldeans?
13. What is the name of the civilization that ruled from Ninevah? (pg. 79)
16. Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar both ruled _______.
17. Babylon was the center of what ancient empire?
18. The Mesopotamian people worshipped _____ gods.
20. What was the primary building material used by the Sumerians?
21. The Phoenicians created the worlds 1st _________.