vocabulary
social classes
Geography
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100
Good for growing things
fertile
100
a person who had to work for free- often captured from other cities during battle
slave
100
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
100
True or false: The Mesopotamians were polytheistic.
true polytheism= belief in more than 1 god
100
Name 2 weapons soldiers used.
bow and arrow, dagger, sword, spear, etc.
200
a people-created system for watering crops
irrigation
200
the person who was in charge of the city, thought of as a god on earth
king
200
What current day country is where Mesopotamia was?
Iraq
200
Name 3 jobs the priests had.
-pray to the gods -entertain and feed the gods -interpret messages from the gods -be the doctors and dentists
200
What is a curator?
a person who takes care of a museum
300
a Mesopotamian temple
ziggurat
300
a person who talked to the gods- had a shaved head
priest
300
What was the temperature and rainfall like in Mesopotamia?
hot and dry
300
Who could enter the ziggurats?
only the priests
300
Name the lady who founded our school.
Sally Smith
400
the first system of writing
cuneiform
400
a person who knew how to read and write, worked for the king, priests, or merchants
scribe
400
What did the rivers do every year?
flooded
400
What was the purpose of votive figures?
To pray for people when they were busy
400
Where is Curator Yeoman from?
Rochester, NY
500
a clay envelope used to hold tokens for trade agreements
bulla ball
500
A person who buys and sells things
merchant
500
What was the name of the area around the two rivers? Hint: It has to do with how good the area was for growing crops.
Fertile Crescent
500
Why were the Mesopotamians so worried about keeping the gods happy?
They believed they would make good things happen if they were happy, and bad things happen if they were angry.
500
Our school building used to be a college. Did it used to be a. Johns Hopkins b. Goucher c. Loyola
Goucher College- it was all girls.
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