Geography
The land of ancient Mesopotamia is between what two Rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What did the people build as temples to worship their gods?
What are Ziggurats?
This invention, made the chariot a great way to travel.
What is the wheel?
Who are Akkadians?
What is farming?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "land between rivers?"
The people of Mesopotamia believed in more than one god, making their religion this.
What is polytheism?
They invented this method for recording their actions.
What is cuneiform?
These people were since as the most important in the community.
Who are priests?
Groups formed their own one of these which traded with other groups.
What are city-states?
What southern body of water do the rivers flow into?
What is The Persian Gulf?
What is every aspect?
This was invented by mixing copper with tin.
What is bronze?
Eventually laws would be created by this member of the society.
Who is the King?
This is the act of trading goods without the use of money.
What is bartering?
What season would the rivers flood and what did these floods deposit onto the land?
What are Spring and Silt?
They believed that these people could talk to the gods.
What are priests?
Sumerians created this tool that we still use today to keep track of future events.
What is a calendar?
These people made up the middle class.
Who were farmers and skilled workers?
This large raft was used to carry goods up and down the rivers.
What is a barge?
In order to control the water, the people built, dams, levees and canals. These are all forms of what?
What is Irrigation?
They believed the gods did these three things, just like people.
What are sleep, eat and get married?
The Sumerian calendar had this many months with this many days in each.
What are 12 and 30?
Scribes, farmers and priests would have been ranked in this order in their society.
What is priests, scribes and farmers?
This mode of transportation allowed traders to move like "the wind."
What are sailboats?