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A nickname for Mesopotamia. It was given this nickname due to the good farmland there.
The first civilization to develop. Located in Mesopotamia. The primary city-state was Ur
Sumer
Social structure is represented with this shape to show that there are less people at the top with more power & more people at the bottom with less power
A triangle (pyramid)
These people were ranked very high in Mesopotamian social hierarchy because they kept the gods happy. Gods controlled all aspects of Mesopotamian life.
Priests
The name for the wedge-shaped writing system in Mesopotamia. A stylus was used to press the shapes into clay tablets.
Cuneiform
The name for temples that Mesopotamians believed were home to the gods.
Ziggurat
The two groups at the top of the Sumerian social pyramid
The Kings (ensi) and priests
The belief in more than one god (as seen in Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Mesopotamia)
Polytheism
The Mesopotamian king who had the world’s first written law codes carved into stone steles using the wedge shaped writing system known as cuneiform.
Hammurabi
The two rivers that surround the land known as Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent, and the cradle of civilization. The cities of Sumer and Babylon were also located between.
Tigris and Euphrates River
The lowest classes Mesopotamia & Egypt that had the most amounts of people with little power. They had jobs that involved physical labor anyone could do.
The unskilled workers (farmers, slaves)
This is the acronym we used to order our lessons of study for Mesopotamia
Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economy
Social Structure
This is the title used for Mesopotamian kings who were priests, judges, military leaders, law makers, and overseers of trade.
Ensi
The modern day region in which Mesopotamia could be found.
Middle East (Iraq)
The basis of social hierarchy. The thing that determined a person’s rank.
A person’s contribution to society (job, wealth)
This is how Mesopotamia's economy worked
Their economy was built on agriculture, surplus of crops. In addition, the surplus led to other non-agricultural jobs (scribes, skilled artists, craftsmen, merchants, artisans, etc.)