Vocab
A large arc of rich, or fertile farmland
Fertile Crescent
What are the two major physical features of ancient Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia is located in what modern day country?
Iraq
Location of 1st Civilization
Fertile Crescent / Mesopotamia
A way of controlling water for Farming
Irrigation
A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile
Silt
A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
City-state
How many features of a civilization are there?
8
The world’s first system of writing
Cunieform
A system that divides people into classes based on job of your family.
Social Hierarchy
A System that Divides People into Jobs
Divison of Labor
What is the mountain range directly Northeast of ancient Mesopotamia?
Zagros Mountains
What body of water do the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers flow into?
Persian Gulf
The use of advanced methods to solve problems
Technology
Farming and cultivating the soil for growing crops
Agriculture
Independent Territories that make up a civilization
Empire
What body of water is directly west of ancient Mesopotamia?
Meditteranean Sea
A belief in more than one god
Polytheism
A time when humans were growing a steady food supply and using animals to help.
Agricultural Revolution
A pyramid-shaped temple
Ziggurat
First set of 282 laws created by King Hammurabi
Hammurabi’s Code
What is the desert directly south of Ancient Mesopotamia?
Syrian Desert
What is the highest and lowest rank of the Social Hierarchy
Top - King
Bottom- Slave
Give 3 examples of an Empire we learned about in Mesopotamia.
Sumer, Babylonia, & Assyrian
Producing more goods or crops than was needed
Surplus