Mesopotamia Geography
What are the names of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
what are
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to worship their gods?
The Ziggurats
What transportation technology were the Mesopotamians the first to invent?
The wheel or the Chariot
City-States were ruled by who?
what are Kings
What were jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, fishers, merchants, traders, artisans, hunters, gatherers
What did the people at the top of the pyramid have?
Which ruler created the world’s first empire?
Sargon
What was the land called when it was able to produce good crops?
what is fertile
What did the Ancient Mesopotamians believe in?
what is Many Gods (polytheism)
What agricultural achievements did the Mesopotamians create?
what is cultivation of soil, irrigation, domesticating
Who had control over the surrounding countryside?
what are city-states
What system did the Mesopotamians use to trade instead of money?
Barter System
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
What was the first civilization to arise between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Sumer
What happened each spring to deposit silt that kept Mesopotamian farmland fertile.
The rivers flooded
In Ancient Mesopotamia, What does Polytheism Mean?
what is the belief in Multiple Gods
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
what is Hammurabi's code
When a group of people has similar incomes and backgrounds.
what is social class
What did weaker city-states have to pay to stronger ones that conquered them?
A tribute
Who makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders
How did city-states protect themselves in Mesopotamia?
large armies
they built high walls
they were surrounded by water
What is it called when you bring water to your crops through waterways and ditches?
irrigation
Who did the Mesopotamians believe could talk to their gods and keep them happy?
Priests/Priestesses
Why did the Mesopotamians need to build walls around their villages?
what are they were easy to invade
Powerful empire in Northern Mesopotamia?
what is Assyria
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write / government officials
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
Mesopotamia was in a region also called what?
The Fertile Crescent
What are 2 of the the early city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what is Sumer, Babylon, Ur, Urik, Sappir, Nippur,
What aspects did Gods control of Ancient Mesopotamian's lives?
ALL aspects
What written language did Ancient Mesopotamians Create?
what is Cuneiform
Who created the oldest code of law?
who was Hammurabi, king of the Babylonian empire
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write and become government officials?
what are Scribes
What were the 5 classes of Mesopotamia?
King, Priests, Merchants/Traders/Craftsmen, Farmers, Slaves
In what region of the world would you find Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent?
The Middle East
Which present-day country makes up most of Mesopotamia?
Iran, Israel, Egypt, Iraq
Iraq
It the epic of Gilgamesh, what was the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
Enkidu was sent by the gods to distract Gilgamesh from mistreating his subjects. They fought and then became great friends.
What is a complex society with a government, cities and specialized workers called?
What is Civilization or City-States
What is a group of territories under the rule of one city or person called?
An empire
What was necessary for a community to have before it's population could increase?
I surplus of food/extra food
The government organizing large projects such as city walls or aqueducts is called what?
Public Works
What does the word 'Mesopotamia' mean?
"The Land Between Two Rivers"