Mesopotamia Part 1
Mesopotamia was between what two rivers?
What are the Tigris & Euphrates River?
Did the Mesopotamians believe in one God or many gods?
What is many gods?
What technology did Mesopotamians invent that helped them travel easier?
What is the wheel or the chariot?
What was the first civilization to arise between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Sumer
These people had two different jobs. The men would typically _____ and the women would __________.
What are hunter-gatherers?
The Neolithic Age people invented this important system that helped them survive.
What is farming/agriculture?
What is the word that means "land that can produce good crops"?
What is fertile?
Who makes up the Upper Class of Mesopotamia?
Who are kings, priests and officials?
Which ruler created the world’s first empire?
Sargon
Mesopotamia was in a region also called what?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What was the name of the Age where most people used simple tools and did have the ability to farm?
What is the Paleolithic Age?
What does "domesticate" mean?
What is to train an animal or plant to live or work with humans?
What written language did the Mesopotamians create?
What is Cuneiform?
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
What is Hammurabi's code?
What is a city that governs itself and its surrounding territories?
What are city-states?
Who created the oldest code of law?
Who was Hammurabi?
What were the tools the Paleolithic Age people used to paint?
What are sticks and their hands?
What were the places of worship called that Neolithic Age people worsipped at?
What are shrines?
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, and streams
What is irrigation?
What were the rulers of Mesopotamia City-States called?
What are kings?
What did weaker city-states have to pay to stronger ones that conquered them?
A tribute
What was one of the Seven Wonders of the World in Babylon?
What are the Hanging Gardens?
What are 2 of the early city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia?
What are Babylon, Ur, Urik, Sappir, Nippur, Ninevah
What does the word 'Mesopotamia' mean?
What is "The Land Between Two Rivers"?
What structures were built in Mesopotamian cities to worship their gods?
Ziggurats
What was necessary for a community to have before it's population could increase?
What is a surplus or extra food?
Which of these present-day countries makes up most of Mesopotamia? England, Egypt, Iraq, Sumer
Iraq
What is a large area of land under the rule of one group or person called?
What is an empire?
What is the powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia?
What is Assyria?
In what region of the world would you find Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Middle East?