Geography
People of Mesopotamia
Everyday Life
Innovations
Vocabulary
100
This is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
This person is most remembered for developing a set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The way most people made a living in Mesopotamia. (A fancy word for farming)
What is agriculture?
100
This is how farmers in Mesopotamia got water for their fields and helped them to prevent and control flooding.
What is irrigation?
100
A centralized society with developed forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning.
What is a civilization?
200
The sea that the Phonecians used for trade, travel, and colonization.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The first person to rule an empire in Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon?
200
When there is more food than what is needed to survive.
What is a surplus?
200
Wedge-shaped letters written on soft clay tablets; the first written language.
What is cuneiform?
200
This is a city and its surrounding farmlands with its own leaders and government.
What is a city-state?
300
These are long periods of time with little or no rain.
What is drought?
300
The leader of the Israelites who led them out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
300
This came about when not all people needed to work at producing food and some could do other jobs.
What is a division of labor?
300
A Mesopotamian innovation built for the need to carry trade goods up the river and throughout the Mediterranean region.
What is a sail boat?
300
Skills and knowledge to make products or meet goals.
What is technology?
400
This rich mixture of bits of rock and soil made the land suitable for growing crops.
What is silt?
400
A person in Sumerian society whose job it was to write.
Who is a scribe?
400
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
400
An aspect of society that was most affected by the coining of money.
What is bartering (trade)?
400
The exchange of one good or service for another.
What is barter?
500
The body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
A type of government where one person has complete authority over the people.
What is a monarchy?
500
A religious temple that is the center of a city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The people who invented a system of writing based on symbols that stood for sounds.
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
An economic system based on the use of money.
What is a money economy?
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