A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks deposited by a river which makes the land around the river ideal for farming

The large arch shaped are of fertile farmland in Southwest Asia is known as

Created the world's first Empire

The world's first writing system, made up of wedge-shapes on clay tablets

Most people in Mesopotamia worked as

A way of supplying water to an area of land to increase crop production

The two rivers which deposited fertile silt and allowed Mesopotamia to become a civilization

The Epic story of this King is believed to be the oldest known written story

The world's oldest known written story is a long poem that tells the story of the hero Gilgamesh. a long poem that ells the story of a hero is called

282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life, written on stone steles for everyone to see

Land with different territories and peoples under one rule

This civilization began in Southern Mesopotamia and is known as the world's first civilization

He ruled for 42 years and wrote a code of laws

The Sumerians built huge pyramid shaped temples for their many gods called

Thanks to their accomplishments in irrigation, Sumerians had more food then they needed. To have food then needed is known as a

A writer of cuneiform in Sumer was called

Sargon created the world's first empire. He was from an are just north of Sumer called

This group of people defeated the Assyrians in 612 BC, their most famous king was Nebuchadnezzar

The people of Mesopotamia control the flow of water to their crops and increased crop production through the use of

The basic political unit in Sumer consisted of a city and all the countryside around it. These political units are called

The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

This beautiful city was located on the Euphrates River near what is Baghdad, Iraq today. Hammurabi ruled from this city

This group of peoples were traders who gave the world the gift of the alphabet

The Sumerians created the a device that can be pulled by oxen and breaks through the hard clay soil to help them farm the device is called

The Sumerians believed in more than 3,000 gods. The belief in more then one god is known as