la géographie
La Mésopotamie se trouvait entre quels deux fleuves?
Tigre & Euphrate
Les temples en Mésopotamie
les ziggourats
Les mésopotamiens ont construit les murs, ou des levées pour se protéger de quelle phénomène naturelle?
les inondations
Une ville ancienne qui ressemblait à un petit pays indépendant avec ses propres lois et son propre gouvernement est connue sous le nom de ???.
une cité-État
What led to the expansion of jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Food surplus
The way a civilization is organized?
Social structure
What is this area of land called?
Fertile Crescent
What did the Ancient Mesopotamians believe in?
Polytheism
What agricultural achievements did the Mesopotamians create?
Cultivation of soil, irrigation, domesticating
Powerful, ruthless, empire in Northern Mesopotamia?
Assyria
What were the jobs in ancient Mesopotamia?
Merchants, artisans, farmers
Who makes up the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
who are kings and priests
What is the name of the modern day country?
Iraq
In Ancient Mesopotamia, what does Polytheism mean?
The belief in multiple gods
What was one of the world's oldest laws called?
Hammurabi's code
Qui a créé le plus ancien code de loi ?
Le roi Hammourabi
What was something the Mesopotamians traded for?
minerals (metal, gold, silver, tin, lead, copper, and bronze)
Who makes up the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders
What bodies of water are at the top and bottom of Mesopotamia?
Mediterranean sea and the Persian Gulf
The ______ are a part of the social structure of Mesopotamia?
Priest
Why did the Mesopotamians need to build walls around their villages?
Easy to invade
Who was the king of the Neo-Babylonians?
Nebuchadnezzar II
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write
Who makes up the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
what are farmers, laborers, and enslaved people
Fine particles of rock that would clog canals?
Silt
Who's duty was it to build and maintain the ziggurats?
King
Quel est le nom de la langue écrite créée par les Mésopotamiens ?
Cunéiforme
Who was the king of the Akkadians?
Sargon
What is someone called when they go to school to learn to write?
Scribes
What were the 3 classes of Mesopotamia?
what is upper/middle/lower classes
The _______ allowed the Samarians to create a food ______?
Flat plains, irrigation systems (levees, canals) that led to a food surplus
Bonus Geography: What does Mesopotamia mean?
Between two rivers
Cuneiform is based on an earlier, simpler form of writing that used _______?
Pictographs
Name the four major ______ of Mesopotamia and on fact about each (not their kings)?
Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians
BONUS GEOGRAPHY: an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
Sumer
Name the six levels of the pyramid in order from top to bottom?
King, priests, nobles, government officials/scribes, merchants and farmers, slaves