Geography & Rivers
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers name means.
What is "land between rivers"?
A type of government where a city and its surrounding lands are governed as an independent state. Mesopotamia had many of these.
What is a city-state?
Ditches and canals used to supply water for farming.
What isan irrigation system?
Mesopotamian people often built these large temple complexes with a stepped tower.
What is a ziggurat?
Most people in Mesopotamia had this job.
What is farmer?
These two rivers were crucial for irrigation and farming in Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates
This Sumerian writing system that was used for record keeping and laws.
What is cuneiform?
Name one main crop grown by Mesopotamian farmers.
What are barley, wheat, flax, dates, garlic, onions, or mustard greens
Religions that worship more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Name the group at the top of Mesopotamian society?
Who are kings?
One way yearly river flooding helped Mesopotamian farmers.
Flooding deposited fertile silt/soil
The earliest written sets of laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Mesopotamians traded goods in these open-air markets.
What are bazaars?
Mesopotamian writing
What is cuneiform?
Mesopotamians traveled for trade in these groups.
What are caravans?
Name one natural resource or physical feature that influenced settlement patterns in Mesopotamia.
Examples: flat river valley, fertile soil, lack of natural barriers (plains), nearby clay, reeds — any one valid example
Leadership role that is passed on to blood relatives for generations
What is a Dynastic Empire?
A technological invention or improvement from Mesopotamia.
Any 1 of these-
What are the wheel, beer, architecture, irrigation, writing, shipbuilding, mathematic rules, alphabet...
The first written literature/book.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The material used to build homes in Mesopotamian cities.
What is mud/clay?
Describe how the location of Mesopotamia helped it become a center for trade between regions (give one specific reason).
Examples: Located between major rivers and along trade routes connecting the Fertile Crescent, Anatolia, Persia; surplus grain allowed trade; easy river transport
How was the Code of Hammurabi was scaled?
What were punishments were based on social class or status?
A Wonder of the Ancient World located in Babylon.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
Worship of only 1 god.
What is monotheism?
Mesopotamian society was divided by this.
What is social status/social classes?