Mesopotamia
What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
What is the land between the rivers?
What early civilization developed in Mesopotamia?
What is Sumer?
What is a complex society with cities, government, religion, and culture?
What is a civilization?
What kind of tools helped early humans hunt and survive?
Stone tools
What document begins with “We the People”?
What is the Constitution?
What two rivers supported Mesopotamian civilization?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What were independent cities with their own governments called?
What are city-states?
What shows how people are organized into classes or groups?
What is the social structure?
What invention made transportation and trade easier in ancient societies?
What is the wheel?
What is the Preamble?
What is the introduction to the Constitution, that states the goals of the government.
What farming system did Mesopotamians use to bring water to their crops?
What is irrigation?
What type of building served as a religious center in Sumerian cities?
What is a ziggurat?
What allowed people to specialize in jobs like merchant or scribe?
What is a surplus of food?
What achievement allowed Sumerians to keep records and laws?
What is Writing (cuneiform)?
What are the first ten amendments called?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What natural problem caused flooding that could destroy homes and crops?
What is unpredictable river flooding?
What system of writing did the Sumerians develop?
What is cuneiform?
Name one characteristic of a civilization.
Cities, government, religion, writing, job specialization, social classes, or art/architecture
How did the invention of the wheel change society?
What is - it improved transportation, farming, and trade?
What do we call changes made to the Constitution?
What are Amendments?
Name one of the four major problems Mesopotamians faced.
Food shortages, uncontrollable water supply, maintaining a complex irrigation system, enemy attacks
What job did scribes perform in Sumerian society?
What is they kept records and wrote laws, trade records, and histories?
What allowed people to get resources they did not have?
What is trade?
Why were technological advancements important to civilizations?
What is - they helped societies grow, trade, and become more organized?
Name one freedom protected by the First Amendment.
What is speech, religion, press, assembly, or petition?