Geography
More than is needed...farmers created this when they became really good at farming...
Food Surplus
The area inside the walls referred to as a city is called an ___________ area...
Urban
The title of someone that would write for their job...
Scribe
The name of a ruler of a kingdom or empire..
Monarch
The invention that marked the beginning of history..
Writing
The geographic area that Mesopotamia covered was known as the...an area of rich farmland..
Fertile Crescent
The area outside the walls where most farmers lived is called a ______________ area...
Rural
Picture symbols were the first form of writing, the vocabulary term for them are...
Pictographs
A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle..
Chariot
The 2 forms of geography...
Physical
Human
Farmers dug a series of _____________ in order to control the flow of water to their crops...
Canals
When a leader conquers many different groups of peoples and brings them under one single ruler is called an...
Empire
The science of building...
Architecture
A set of letters arranged in a certain order that can be used in combination to form words..
The 2 types of sources of information and the difference between them..
Primary - witnessed the event
Secondary - learned of the event but did not witness the event
Division of Labor
They believed in many gods in Mesopotamia, this type of religion is called...
Polytheism
A pyramid shaped temple that was at the city center in Mesopotamia...
Ziggurat
The name of the set of laws that were written down for the first time..
Hammurabi's Code
The study of the past based on what people left behind (think digging for artifacts)
Archaeology
Mesopotamia is the land between the rivers, which two rivers does is lie between?
Tigris
Euphrates
The king was on top, priests and nobles second, craftspeople and merchants third, farmers fourth, and slaves at the bottom, this is Mesopotamia's __________
Social Hierarchy
The name of the type of writing used in Mesopotamia...
The city in which Hammurabi located his empire..
Babylon
The 6 characteristics of civilizations..
Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economics
Social Structure