Religion
The belief in many gods
What is Polytheism?
What is a scribe?
This was an independent place with its own government and traditions.
What is a city-state?
This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.
What is irrigation?
The Sumerians invented a number system based on this number.
What is the number ZERO?
I could communicate with the gods
Who was the priests?
Materials the Sumerians used to write in 3200 BCE.
What are a reed/stylist and clay tablets ?
A trading system in which people exchange goods without using money.
What is to barter or bartering?
A long period of dry weather.
What is drought?
This was built for the gods in each city-state.
What was a temple called a ziggurat?
Mixed copper and tin made this new metal.
What is bronze?
At first, some traders used these to transport goods.
What are canals and rivers?
Each spring, rivers flooded spreading water leaving behind this rich fertile soil perfect for farming.
What is silt?
An area of flat land that rises above the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
According to the Sumerians, the gods used their power to either help the Sumerians ------- or --------
What is prosper or struggle?
This was first used for irrigation, pottery making, and milling.
What is the wheel?
This improvement to Sumerian boats made trading easier.
What is sails?
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the Land.....because of where it is located.
What is the Land Between Two Rivers?
Two crops grown in the Fertile Crescent.
What is a wheat and barley?
The Sumerians gave what to the gods so that they might have good fortune.
What is prayers and offerings?
Sumerians attached this to their plows to automatically drop seeds into the soil.
What is a seed funnel?
Mesopotamia is nicknamed a curved region with rich soil in the Middle East.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This country is currently where Mesopotamia was located in 3200 BCE.
What is Iraq?
Region of the world where Ancient Mesopotamia was located.
What is Middle East?