TERMS
This is the specialization of jobs, because not everyone has to be a farmer
What is division of labor?
The Mesopotamians used this system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
Mesopotamia- meaning of the word
What is between the rivers?
These people were at the top of the social structure pyramid.
What is royalty- Kings and queens?
The Arabian Peninsula looks like a chunky ______.
What is a boot?
This is the production of storage of extra food, allowing for cities and civilization
What is SURPLUS?
This type of person kept records in Mesopotamia.
What is a scribe?
This moon-shaped landform is between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Because of geography, Sumerian settlements became _____-______ that were largely cut off from each other, and politically independent. They also each had their own god.
What is a city-state?
This was where artisans, bakers, and normal working class people were on the social structure pyramid.
What is the middle?
This is the worship of many gods
What is POLYTHEISM?
Cuneiform was written on this.
What is clay tablets?
This nutrient-rich soil was deposited on the valley floor with each flood and made for great land to grow crops on.
What is silt?
These were the only people allowed to enter the top floor of a ziggurat, not kings.
What were priests?
Hunter Gatherers were living in ________ mode and not knowing where their next _________ was coming from.
What are survival and meal/food?
This is the official word for the domestication of crops or farming
What is AGRICULTURE?
These buildings were the most important of each city-state and housed the god.
What is a ZIGGURAT?
These are the two rivers in the Mesopotamian Valley...
(NAME BOTH)
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The bottom of the social structure pyramid was where this very large population were located
What were servants and slaves?
Without the use of this method to water crops- surplus, division of labor, and cities would not have been possible.
What is _____________?
Irrigation is not just watering plants, but also keeping flood waters from destroying things. Name 3 different methods for irrigation.
What are gates, dams, levees, canals, or ditches?
At the top of every ziggurat was the highest room. This was believed to be __________________
What is the House of a god?
The land between the rivers was especially important for early farmers because the surrounding landscape was
What is desert?
This is the type of political body ruled by kings
What is a MONARCHY?
Mesopotamian social structure was a ____________
meaning that it was mostly male-dominated
What is a PATRIARCHY?