Geography of the Fertile Crescent
In ancient times, Mesopotamia was made up of these two parts.
What is Northern Mesopotamia(plateau bordered my mountains to the North and East) and Southern Mesopotamia(a flat plain)?
Without roads, how did ancient civilization travel and trade goods?
What is they traveled on the rivers?
This ancient Uruk king became a legendary figure in Sumerian Literature.
The Sumerians believed that success in every area of life depended on this.
What is pleasing the gods?
Cuneiform was first used for this purpose.
What is to keep business records?
The rich farmland stretched from these two bodies of water. (Name of land and two bodies of water).
What is the Fertile Crescent from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?
Early civilizations arose in the Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China for this reason.
What is that they had good locations for farming?
This Akkadian king was the first ruler to do this, which greatly helped him conquer neighboring kingdoms. (Who and what?)
What is help gain the gods' favor, interpret the wishes of the gods, and make offerings to them?
This invention greatly increased the productivity of the Sumerian farmer.
What is the plow?
What is silt?
What are Mohenjo Daro and Harappa?
Akkad eventually fell a century after Sargon's death due to this.
What is hostile tribes from the east that raided and captured Akkad?
What is social hierarchy?
One of the main inventions of the Sumerians was the wheel, for these two reasons.
What are that it made transportation easier and it led to the potter wheel?
Flooding and controlling water was essential for Ancient Mesopotamia to flourish. What steps did they take to irrigate the land?
What is digging large storage basins to hold water supplies, canals to transport the water, and ditches to bring the waters to the fields?
Most of the Sumerians lived in these areas.
What is rural areas?
After the fall of Akkad, this city-state rebuilt its strength and conquered the rest of Mesopotamia.
The middle class of society was made of of these people?
What are craftspeople, merchants, and traders?
The Sumerians would use these in order to show ownership of objects, sign documents, or decorate other clay objects.
What is that they used cylinder seals?
What is new occupations developed because they needed less farmers, more people became crafters, religious leaders, and government workers?
City-States had these which made them independent. (Name three)
What are own religions, own governments, and own armies?
The Sumerians practiced this concept of religion.
Cuneiform was different from pictographs because of this important reason.
What is that symbols could represent syllables or basic parts of words?
The Sumerians had many technological advancements but their knowledge of writing allowed them to do this for the sciences and medicines.
What are to record their study of the natural world, and catalogue their medical knowledge, listing treatments, according to symptoms and body parts?