Terms
The fine soil deposited by rivers that is great for farming.
What is silt?
The highest-ranked leader of a group of people.
TRIPLE BONUS!!!
What is a king?
A story of an evil Uruk King who is part human and part God that leads to him meeting a great friend and becoming a better person.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The highest social class of Mesopotamia included these groups.
What are priests, priestesses, and Kings?
A period when not enough rain and snow fall.
What is a drought?
An advanced form of culture that includes religion, writing, government, job specialization, and more.
What is a civilization?
The movement of water from one place to another.
What is irrigation?
The second highest class in Mesopotamian society.
What are farmers, artisans, and merchants?
More of something than is needed.
What is a surplus?
The region in southern Mesopotamia that was the site of the first civilization, led by Sargon the Great.
What is Sumer?
A person who specializes in writing.
What is a scribe?
The lowest class in Mesopotamian society.
What were the slaves?
A human-made waterway that brings water from the river closer to fields.
What is a canal?
The largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city.
What is a ziggurat?
Wedge-shaped writing started as pictographs and then evolving into a language with different combinations of three symbols.
What is cuneiform?
Name one of the Gods in Mesopotamian society.
Enlil, Enki, etc.
The two rivers that gave life to Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is polytheism?
A sharpened reed used to make markings in clay tablets.
What is a stylus?
Name at least 3 city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia.
Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, Akkad, etc.
Name the four most important empires in Mesopotamian history.
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Neo-Babylonian