Geography Features 6.5
Rivers that helped Mesopotamia get its' name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Crescent-shaped area of land in the middle east that was better than the area around for growing crops and raising livestock.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Inventions, that when combined together, helped transport people and items further distances and faster.
What is the wheel and cart?
By having more food to store and trade, Mesopotamia saw a growth in this.
What is economic growth?
A goddess and a human king.
Who are the parents of Gilgamesh?
This body of water is where the two main rivers emptied into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
What the rivers deposited onto the ground around them after the annual flooding.
What is silt?
Branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification.
What is metallurgy?
Result of cities not needing other cities to thrive and survive.
What is the emergence of independent city-states?
Enkidu
Who was the best friend of Gilgamesh?
Mountain chain to the east of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zargos Mountains?
What is the Cradle of Civilization?
Growth of cities.
What is an effect of having a food surplus?
Result of people having more time to make and trade items other than food and having an easier time of being able to get from one place to another.
What is expansion of trade and transportation?
2100 B.C.E.
What is the oldest known copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Body of water that divides the northern part of Africa from the southern part of Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Flooding, lack of natural resources and no natural defenses.
What were the three main problems of the people of Mesopotamia?
Slaves
Who were the group of people that were forced to help with farming that made farming more productive?
Advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping and advanced technologies.
What are the five things Mesopotamia had in order to be recognized as the birthplace of civilization?
"For it is not mans fate to live forever but for his creations to carry his name into the generations yet to exist."
What did Gilgamesh learn from his epic journey?
Body of water that most likely got its' name from the fact it was very stormy.
What is the Black Sea?
Wheat and barley
What were the major crops of the Fertile Crescent?
Combination of dams and canals that helped store water and get water to where it was needed.
What is irrigation?
Southern Mesopotamia
Man found worthy of immortal life by the god Enki.
Who is Utnaphistim?