Vocabulary
A large temple
Ziggurat
Mesopotamia means this
The land between the rivers
The only group of people allowed inside the ziggurat
Priests
We still use this invention to "get around" today
The "M" in MR LIP stands for this
Movement
The earliest known form of writing
Cuneiform
Mesopotamia was located in an area called the
Fertile Crescent
Ziggurat
This Mesopotamian invention helps you do your school work
Cuneiform or writing
The "R" in GRAPES stands for this
Religion
Someone who writes documents and keeps records
Scribe
This was a positive of living near the rivers
Water to the fields and crops
The belief in many gods
Polytheism
Irrigation
We live on this continent
North America
A group of many different lands under ONE ruler
Empire
This was a negative of living near the rivers
Flooding
In times of war, city-states fought to gain this
Territory or land
This invention helps us tell time
60 minute hour or 60 second minute
Name one of the rivers that ran through Mesopotamia
Tigris or Euphrates
A belief in many gods
Mesopotamia was located in the
Desert
This ruler created the first set of laws
Hammurabi
The Mesopotamians came up the phases of this
The moon
The "I" in MR LIP stands for this
Interaction (Human Environmental)