Religion
Part-Man and Part-god
What is a Demi-god?
Made transportation and trade much easier and faster
What is the wheel?
The type of geographical feature makes up Mesopotamia
What is a Flood Plain?
A fine soil that is deposited by rivers when they flood.
What is silt?
How did the Code of Hammurabi advance Mesopotamia? (2 parts)
-Provided order
-Allowed citizens to know the laws
The Mesopotamians believed that the land and everything on it belonged to them
What are the gods?
Used to maintain order (Hammurabi's Code)
What are Laws?
What are the 2 rivers of Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
The use of connected ditches, canals, and dams to move water to dry areas
What is irrigation?
The way people use resources to distribute goods and services
What is Economy?
A Giant Mud Brick Religious Temple
What is a Ziggurat?
Helped prepare/cultivate soil for farming
What is the plow?
The Meaning of Mesopotamia
What is, "Land between the Rivers"?
Walls of earth prevented the water from flooding over the banks of the rivers
What are Levees?
An independent kingdom or state made up of a city and the surrounding land it controls
What is a city-state?
Believing in Multiple gods
What is Polytheism?
What is the Calendar?
The two big bodies of water that touch the fertile crescent (Not the Rivers).
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
Why did Mesopotamians need to create irrigation?
Flood season would ruin the crops, while the dry season would not give enough water to the crops, created a system so the valley wouldn't flood while also containing the water for the dry seasons.
The name of the region where the Mesopotamians resided
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Belief in One god
What is Monotheism?
Used to track business exchanges and write down stories
What is Cuneiform?
How did geography impact settlement in Mesopotamia? (4 parts)
1. Snow melted in the Mountains.
2. The muddy, flooding rivers would wash down into the flood plain.
3. Fertile silt was left behind.
4. The silt was great for farming.
How did irrigation advance Mesopotamia? (3 Parts)
-led to a surplus of crops
-controlled flooding
-stored water for summer
Improvement on a previous invention
What is an Innovation?