Geography
The location of present day Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
Farmers, potters, weavers, traders, and artisans
What are the people's occupations?
The religion practiced by the Sumerians
What is Polytheism?
Wedge-shaped writing that was the first written language for recording arguments and receipts
What are cuneiforms?
Items the Mesopotamians got when they bartered
copper, stone, wood
The two rivers that border Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What is a surplus?
Ways that the gods behaved like people
What is they ate, drank, slept, and married
This separated time by days, months and years, and allowed people to know what day it was
These three things are technologies that made trading easier
barges, sails, wheels
fresh drinking water, fish, water for crops
The reason Mesopotamia had a surplus
What is irrigation systems?
These people, members of the upper class, were able to communicate with the gods
This round, wooden object helped to move things and was the first of its kind
What is the wheel?
The three major social classes of Mesopotamia
The Gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates end
What is the Persian Gulf
What is specialized jobs?
The reasons ziggurats, or temples, were built
What is for the gods and to worship the gods?
This was the first form of a clock and was used to tell time?
What is a sundial?
This first set of written laws included 282 laws and taught about consequences
What is the Code of Hammurabi
The continent that Mesopotamia is on
Asia
Things that the Mesopotamians had a surplus of that they would BARTER or trade
barley, fish, reeds, cloth
What A religion is called that worships more than one god
What is polytheism?
These systems of trenches allowed farmers to bring water to their fields and grow a surplus of crops
What are irrigation systems?
Sargon, an Akkadian ruler, conquered Sumer and many other city-states. He unites all the city-states under his rule, forming the world’s first ___
What is empire?