Inventions
A large circular disk that is rolled on its smooth side.
What is the wheel?
Small, fine particles of rock.
What is silt?
To tame an animal to help do tasks
What is domestication?
Someone who is in high power and rules the land that they own.
What is a king?
This place is known as the birthplace of city states and civilization.
What is Sumer?
A way of transporting water over land.
What is irrigation?
Used to dig into the ground to plant seeds
What is a plow?
A type of military blockade commonly used in Mesopotamia to force a city to surrender to the attacker.
What is a siege?
A person who trades good to get money in return.
What is a merchant?
A large area of land that stretches from Egypt to Turkiye known for having a good climate to grow plants.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A large structure made of large stone layers that are commonly found in the center of city states.
What is a ziggurat?
A disk spun on its side that is used to help make pots.
What is a potter's wheel?
Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.
What is a tribute?
Known as the first "superhero" of Mesopotamia.
Who is Gilgamesh?
A small region of land that abides by its own rules.
What is a city state?
A way that a territory values and trades goods and uses materials.
What is economy?
A tall object with over 1,000 different laws written on it.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
An act of items being sold and given to the person who bought it.
What is trade?
Someone who writes down anything, but mainly the trading between anyone.
What is a scribe?
A reason for some major inventions and one of the reasons that Sumer is where it is.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Known as the first common writing system.
What is cuneiform?
A large bed where items would be placed on where it would be dragged along the ground on its smooth bottom.
What is a Sledge?
The belief of more than a single god.
What is polytheism?
A person who makes pots, tools, and many other crafts.
What is an artisan?
Mesopotamia contains modern countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Kuwait and these two countries.
What is Turkey and Iraq?