Mesopotamia 1
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
The Sumerian farmers grew 4 main different types of successful crops. Name at least one.
What is wheat, barley, or corn?
These are the type of nomadic people who traveled from place to place in search of food.
What is hunter-gatherers?
This is the worship of many gods.
This made it possible for people to eat when the growing season was bad.
What is a food surplus?
The region name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
People settled and began communities in this area because of this main reason.
What is fertile land to grow crops?
What is man learns to farm?
Sumerian city/states became economically successful primarily because they did this with surplus items.
What is trade?
The ziggurats were built very tall because of this.
What is to connect/pray to the gods and heavens?
What modern country is Mesopotamia found in?
What is Iraq?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Fertile __________"
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
When people specialize in a particular task or job.
What is division of labor?
Which social class of society do farmers belong in?
What is the middle class?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states where people went to worship and pray to their gods.
Mesopotamia is found on this continent.
What is Asia?
Sumerian city/states built a large wall around the city for this reason.
What is to protect against invaders?
This is another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
The ___________ Era was the period of time in history when farming and agriculture began.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This is the term referring to the taming of plants and/or animals.
What is domestication?
What is another name for the Greek phrase "The Land Between Two Rivers?"
What is Mesopotamia?
These are the class of people in society who lived the closest to the ziggurat in each city/state.
What is the upper class (kings, priests, priestesses, scribes)?
Before this was made, flooding was a common. They used what special technique to water their crops?
What is irrigation?
These are the people who led religious services and communicated the desires of the gods.
What is priests and priestesses?