Farming Vocabulary
The sloping ground on the side of a river.
What are banks?
This term refers to the flat, fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
Name the two major rivers that defined Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Writing using wedge-shaped symbols found in
Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
What was Mesopotamian writing called?
The writing in Mesopotamian was called cuneiform
Ditches dug into the land to move water from one place to another. It can also be used for transportation.
What are canals?
This agricultural technique was vital for farming in Mesopotamia.
What is irrigation or canals?
This modern-day country includes much of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
Written information
What are records
What were the people called who wrote down the Codeof Hammurabi? (scribes)
THe people who wrote down the Code of Hammurabi are called scribes
What is flow?
This animal helps farmers with work on the farm.
What is an ox?
This city was one of the most important and influential in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
These people wrote the laws on clay tablets.
What are scribes
Why was writing important to a civilization such as Mesoptamia?
It helped them to write down and remember their laws. Without writing, the laws might have changed much more frequently.
A natural or man-made area is similar to a lake where water is stored for future use.
What is reservoir?
Why did the people dig canals?
To move water from the river to other places to support farming and for transportation.
The land around the rivers in Mesopotamia?
What is fertile?
The letters of our alphabet are _______ for sounds.
What are symbols
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
The many laws that Hammurabi, the king of Mesopotamia, had written down and which everyone was expected to follow.
To exchange goods.
What is trade?
Could the Mesopotamians have settled in this area if it had not been on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
They needed the water from the rivers to water their crops, to drink, etc.
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
A thick, flat piece of stone, clay, wood, or paper used for writing
What are tablets
The teacher keeps attendance ______ of all the students in his class.
records