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?
Building create for worship and practicing religious beliefs
temples
Writing using wedge-shaped symbols found in
Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
What is a large group of people traveling together on animals or in vehicles called?
caravan
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?
powerful unseen rulers, both male and female, that people living in ancient times believed controlled what happened in the world
gods/goddesses
What were the people called who wrote down the Code of Hammurabi?
scribes
What was a two-wheeled, horse-drawn carts used in battle and races during ancient times called?
chariots
What is flow?
This animal helps farmers with work on the farm.
What is an ox?
religious leaders
priests
These people wrote the laws on clay tablets.
What are scribes
Who is someone who buys and sells goods?
merchant
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 belief or worship of more than one god
polytheistic
The letters of our alphabet are _______ for sounds.
What are symbols
Floors that are raised off the ground are called?
platforms
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.
a tall pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
ziggurat
A thick, flat piece of stone, clay, wood, or paper used for writing
What are tablets
Who built the Hanging Gardens built?
King Nebuchadnezzar