The Big Move
The earliest settlers moved to Mesopotamia because of a shortage of this.
What is food?
What was built in Ancient Mesopotamia to worship their gods?
The Ziggurats
The written language created by ancient Mesopotamians.
what is Cuneiform?
What is a group of territories under the rule of one city or person called?
An empire
Main marketplace in each city-state.
What is a bazaar?
Kings and priests made up this class of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the upper class?
What happened each spring to deposit silt that kept Mesopotamian farmland fertile.
The rivers flooded
They lived at the top of the ziggurat.
Who is the god of the city-state?
This group revolutionized how people travel.
Who are the Sumerians?
Purpose of an Ancient Sumerian Eddubas
What is a school to teach cuneiform?
What did weaker city-states have to pay to stronger ones that conquered them?
A tribute
The class of craftspeople, merchants, and traders in ancient Mesopotamia,
What is the middle class?
This happened frequently to irrigation systems, and villagers had to work together to fix it.
What is they got clogged?
In Ancient Mesopotamia, What does Polytheism Mean?
what is Believed in Multiple Gods
This invention allowed the Sumerians to control flooding.
What is a levee?
When a group of people has similar incomes and backgrounds.
what is social class
This was necessary before a city-state could increase its population or create trade opportunities.
What is a surplus of food?
Large projects such as city walls or aqueducts organized by the government.
What are Public Works?
Because of disputes over this resource, many cities built walls to protect themselves from attack.
What is water?
Mesopotamians believed they could talk to their gods and keep them happy?
Who are Priests/Priestesses?
An alloy of tin and copper created by the Sumerians.
What is bronze?
Powerful empire in Northern Mesopotamia?
what is Assyria
What did Scribes go to school for in Ancient Mesopotamia?
To learn to write / government officials
The concept of sharing customs, ideas, religious beliefs, and technologies, usually in a common place.
What is cultural diffusion?
This means "land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
The head god of Babylon from whom Hammurabi received his laws.
Who is Marduk?
This invention improved the stable food supply by making planting easier.
What is the plow?
Of the following, which present-day country makes up most of Mesopotamia? Iran, Israel, Egypt, Iraq
What is Iraq?
What system did the Mesopotamians use to trade instead of money?
Barter System
A complex society with a government, cities and specialized workers that generated new technologies and cultural advances.
What is a Civilization?