Vocabulary
Geography
Farming
Daily Life
Sumer
100
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism
100
Large desert that bordered Mesopotamia
What is the Arabian Desert?
100
Populations grew too large for farmers in the hill region to provide enough food for everyone
Why did early Mesopotamians move to the Southern Plain?
100
Merchants, Fishers, Artisans and Farmers were members of this social class.
What is the Middle Class?
100
A physical barrier around a city-state.
What is a mud brick wall?
200
Sand or soil particles found at the bottom of streams, rivers
What is silt?
200
The first Mesopotamians started farming in this area
What is the foothills of the Zagros Mountains?
200
This was the springtime benefit that made farming in the Southern region of Mesopotamia possible.
What is flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
The King got his right to rule from these.
Who are the gods?
200
The city and the land around it.
What is a city-state?
300
Called the 'Cradle of Civilization'
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This is the eastern river of Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris River?
300
These were used to take water from the rivers to farm fields and as a means of travel by boat.
What are canals?
300
Early city-states were ruled by this person that was both a religious and government leader.
Who is the priest king?
300
One reason why city-states sometimes attacked each other.
What is control over water resources?
400
A man-made wall that runs along a river or other river source in order to protect land from flooding
What is a levee?
400
Today's countries of Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and part of Iran are located in this area named for its rich soil.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
400
These were areas in which water could be stored.
What are reservoirs?
400
Scribes used this first written language to record important information.
What is cuneiform?
400
Three responsibilities of the king/government.
What is building temples, building irrigation systems, leading the army, collecting taxes
500
The water of plants/crops
What is irrigation?
500
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
This activity brought communities together for the good of everyone.
What is maintaining the canal system?
500
The people in this class lived closest to the city center, in two storied mud brick homes.
What is the Upper Class?
500
Three contributions of the Sumerians.
What is the wheel, the arch, irrigation system, plow, math system based on 60
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