Characteristics Of Older Civilizations (COOC)
What characteristics allow the civilization to refer to events, people, and places in the past?
What is record keeping?
What is the longest river in Ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Euphrates?
Who was the king of the Akkadians in the empire of Akkad?
Who is Sargon?
Where is the present-day Ancient Mesopotamia (country/continent)?
Where are Southern Iraq and Southwest Asia?
What does the term A.D. mean in the timeline of civilizations?
What is Anno Domini?
What are the three most important areas of economics?
What are consumers, producers, and services?
Why did ancient civilizations develop along the rivers in Mesopotamia?
What is Ancient Mesopotamia was developed along the rivers because they provided a source of fresh water and good farmland.
Who was the king of Uruk, and what did he learn from a story written about his life many, many years ago?
Who is Gilgamesh, and he learn to be humble?
What are at least two countries surrounding Mesopotamia at the moment?
What are Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, etc.? (Any of the two said are fine)
What is a belief in or worship of more than one god?
What is polytheism?
What is the largest social hierarchy classification of the Sumerian civilization with artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers?
What is the middle class?
What body of water do the two main rivers that supply Ancient Mesopotamia flow into, which is south of the region?
What is the Persian Gulf?
What are three things the Sumerians invented, and what is one thing that assists mathematicians today?
What is the wheel, the metal plow, a writing system, sailboats, the 12-month calendar, time, the 360-degree cycle, and one thing that assists mathematicians today is geometry?
What did the Sumerians call a city and the country land surrounding it over time?
What is a city-state?
Where did the Sumerians go to worship, and who did they worship in this location?
What is the Ziggurat, and who is the chief god?
What were the classes in Mesopotamia before the Sumerians migrated to the land and created Sumer along with many other things, and how many are in it?
What are the Ruling Class, Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Class, and Slaves, and there were five?
Why did Mesopotamians build canals, irrigation systems, and underground tunnels?
What is because they needed a way to control the river's flow to prevent flooding and increase farming?
Who were the only individuals that could go to the schooling in Ancient Mesopotamia, what was the schooling called, and what class must they have been in during this period?
Who are boys, what is scribal school, and they could only be in the upper-class ranking/wealth?
What are at least two city-states in Ancient Mesopotamia, and what is the one residing closest to the Persian Gulf?
What are Ur, Uruk, Babylon, Babylonia, Assyria, Akkad, Kish, Nippur, Sippar, and Eridu (any of the ones mentioned are fine), and what is Eridu?
In the governmental system in Ancient Mesopotamia, the kings took over which division of labor to assist because it made the civilization better.
What are priests?
What was a major rule for the social classes in Sumer for the Sumerians, unlike many other civilizations that were very unique and special?
What is that a civilian had to stay in the class in which he/she was born throughout their duration in that civilization?
What are other bodies of water surrounding the Ancient Mesopotamia region besides the major rivers that enrich that fertile ground? What major ocean do they push into as well?
What are the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea? What is the Indian Ocean and what is the Atlantic Ocean?
Which social class in Sumer were the individuals that were craftsmen/craftswomen a part of and what are those individuals called as well?
What is the middle class, and what are artisans?
Where did the civilians come from that first controlled much of Mesopotamia, including Sumer? (spell it out correctly as well for the credit/points.)
What is Akkad?
What are four areas there was a god for in Ancient Mesopotamia for the Sumerians?
What is a god of heaven, air, wisdom, sun, moon, love and war, fire, water, etc?