Religion
What religion did the Mesopotamians practice ?
Polytheism
What role did the Kings also hold?
The head priest in the temples
What was their writing called?
Cuneiform
Mesopotamia is also called what ?
Land between two rivers
Name two inventions by the Mesopotamians
Writing
The wheel
Irrigation
What were their temples called?
Ziggurats
Name two important jobs that the King had
Built temples
Settled disputes between his people
Maintained canals and farmlands
Lead his people to victory in war
What did the Mesopotamian's writing look like ?
Wedge shaped
Used to be pictures or symbols for different things
What rivers was Mesopotamia located between?
Tigris and Euphrates
True or false? Mesopotamians' believed in many gods
True
What does the word "dingir" mean?
Gods who looked and acted like humans
How did the kings of Mesopotamia manage all of their jobs?
He appointed bureaucrats, or workers who answered directly to him, to regulate trade and agriculture.
Why did they start their system of writing?
To keep track of goods and payments
What is the fertile crescent
a geographical area of fertile land stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates. Some of the best farmland of the Fertile Crescent is in a narrow strip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What questions did religion answer for the Mesopotamians?
Life death, good evil, and forces of nature
How did the early Mesopotamians first make decisions?
The free citizens met and discussed and made decisions for themselves in a democratic assembly
How did they write?
Ex- pencil and paper?
By using a wedge shaped item, or stylus, and put it into damp clay
Mesopotamia is located near what modern-day country?
Iraq
What were the temples also used for?
As a warehouse
to store goods
Why were the priests respected
Because they were the servants of the gods and advisers of the king
What are two jobs that one could get if they knew the writing system
Law
Trade
Ziggurats
Government
The technology of ____________ required early farmers to control water from rivers and lakes to use for their crops
Irrigation