Geography
Mesopotamia is between what two rivers?
True or False: Mesopotamia was the site of the first cities.
True
Mesopotamians believed gods lived in ....
ziggurats.
What was the first set of laws called?
Hammurabi's Code
What crops did they grow? Name two.
Wheat, barley, cucumbers, figs
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
Mesopotamia means "between two rivers."
Cities began in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia around what year?
3500 BC
Ziggurats were known as ....
stairways to heaven.
"An eye for an eye" means ...
The punishment should fit the crime.
_______________ would walk around the field to trample the soil and prepare it for growing seeds.
Animals
True or False: Sumer is located in the northern part of Mesopotamia.
False - Sumer is in the southern part of Mesopotamia, near the Persian Gulf.
Each city was an independent state. What does this mean? (Name two things)
They had their own government, army, schools, and worshipped their own god.
People brought things to the ziggurats for the gods. Name who things.
Huge plates of food, incense, music played
True or False: Punishment for killing a noble was harsher than for killing a peasant.
True
_______________ were soon attached to animals to spread out seeds evenly
What was good about the rivers flooding?
It brought good soil for farming.
Cities were built between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers because ... (2 things!)
There was a water source and land was good for farming.
If people misbehaved, what did they believe the gods would do?
Punish them.
If one opens his water and floods his neighbor's crops, he must ...
pay his neighbor in corn for his loss.
A cart with _____________ was first used in Mesopotamia.
wheels
What countries are now located in Mesopotamia? Name THREE.
Iraq, Kuwait, and Syria.
Cities usually included a public square. Name at least two things you might have found there.
Acrobats, musicians, beggars and water-sellers.
They believed in many gods.
If a son strikes his father ...
his hand shall be cut off.
Mesopotamians were the first to implement irrigation. What does that mean?
They brought water from the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers to their crops.