Vocabulary
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between rivers.
Where is Mesopotamia located?
Iraq.
How did they get all of their food?
Farming.
What did Mesopotamia believe in?
Polytheism.
What did Mesopotamia invent that was essential for farming?
Irrigation.
What is the Fertile Crescent mean?
An area of fertile land in the Middle East
What were the rivers that ran through Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates.
What was their main source of food?
Wheat and Barley.
How many gods did they have?
Seven.
What did Mesopotamia invent that was essential for travel?
The wheel and chariot.
What is Polytheism?
The belief of more than one god.
Why was Mesopotamia good for farming?
The soil was normally dry but the Tigris and Euphrates river left silt on it and made it fertile.
What were the social classes?
The King and Nobility, The Priests and Priestesses, The Upper Class, the Lower Class, and The Slaves.
What were Ziggurats?
They were big temples at the highest points of Mesopotamia, they built them so they could get closer to the gods.
Which game did they invent?
Checkers.
What is agriculture?
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What was the geography like in Mesopotamia?
It is made up of hills and plains.
What did Mesopotamia people wear?
The men wore kilt-like skirts and the women wore longer dresses.
What offering did people bring for the gods?
People would leave food, cloth, and wine as gifts to the gods on the steps of the Ziggurats.
True of False? they developed math.
True.
What is the Hammurabi Code
It is a code of 282 laws.
Why were the rivers important to Mesopotamia?
Because they provided the soil with silt which made the soil fetile
What was the main job in Mesopotamia.
Farming.
What were the names of the seven gods?
An, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag, Nanna, Utu, and Inanna.
What was the most important invention?
The first ever language.