Geography
The rivers on either side of the land of Ancient Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates River
Temples built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honour gods
What are Ziggurats?
A written language created by the Ancient Sumerians and written on clay tablets
What is Cuneiform?
A Sumerian invention that allowed people to work together to meet basic needs
What are city-states?
A way the Ancient Sumerians received free labour
What are enslaved people?
The 3 social classes of Ancient Mesopotamia
What are upper, middle, and lower classes?
Two key land features that make Mesopotamia's soil fertile
What are rivers and mountains?
The religion practiced by Ancient Sumerians
What is worshipping of several gods and thousands of minor gods (polytheistic)?
An Ancient Sumerian invention that made transport easier
What is the wheel?
The rulers of city-states
What are Kings?
At least three jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia
What are farmers, fishers, merchants, traders, artisans, hunters, gatherers?
Held by the people at the top of the social pyramid
What is the most power, status, and wealth?
The Sumerians solution to control the flooding from damaging crops
What is irrigation using ditches and levees/gates?
The social status of the priest
What is just below the King?
An invention of the Ancient Sumerians that helps keep track of time and seasons passing
What is the 365-day calendar?
The benefits of a city-state
What is allowing people to engage in other professions and be educated?
The reason Scribes went to school in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is learning to write and record information?
Some members of the Upper Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who are kings, priests, and scribes?
A word to describe the soil when it is able to produce good crops
What is fertile?
The book where rules similar to Hammurabi's Code appear
What is the Hebrew Bible?
One of the world's oldest laws, written down by the Ancient Sumerians
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The creator of one of the oldest codes of law?
Who is Hammurabi, King of the Babylonian empire?
A way the Sumerians supported the priests and kings
What are taxes?
Members of the Middle Class of Ancient Mesopotamia
Who are craftspeople, merchants, and traders?
At least one of the early city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia
What are Babylon, Ur, Urik, Sappir, Nippur?
The way rulers of a city-state were NOT treated
What is worshipped like gods?
An agricultural achievement that allowed the Sumerians to stay in one place
What is farming and domestication?
The two highest positions in a city-state other than the ruler
What is a priest and a scribe?
A reason farming, domestication, and the creation of city-states helped the economy in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is division of labour?
Members of the Lower Class of Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who are farmers, labourers, and enslaved people?