Problems and solutions
The early settlers moved to Mesopotamia because of a short supply of this
What is food?
These wedged spaced symbols were called this.
What is cuneiform?
The Tigris and this river are the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates?
This improved the stable food supply by making planting easier. Hint(“Its a Sumerians invention”)
What is the plow?
Sumerian governments were arranged as these independent units.
What are city-states?
This happened many times to the irrigation systems, and the villagers had to work together to fix it
What is Flooding
As paper had not been invented, this was used instead of paper.
What is clay tablets?
Mesopotamia is on this present day continent.
What is Asia?
This invention helped get civilization “rolling“ with cart for farmers and chariots for the military
What is the wheel?
Who was the leader that brought together all of Mesopotamia
Who is Sargon the Great?
This invention allowed the Sumerians to control the flooding
What is levees
The Sumerians kept records, they were considered the first civilization with recorded__________.
What is history?
Mesopotamia was in this present day country.
What is Iraq?
The ziggurat is a building that reflects this divine characteristic.
What is religion?
Hammurabi is the leader of the Babylonians was best remember for the legal contribution.
What are the laws?
Without this, Sumerians would never have been able to farm in the desert‘s dry soil.
what is irrigation?
These were tools created from reeds for writing.
What is a stylus?
This body of water is fed by both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Not all Sumerians were considered the same.this is because they had these levels of jobs and status.
What is social structure?
Assyrians were best remembered for this.
What is a fierce military?
Because of these disputes over this resource, most cites we’re surrounded by walls
What is Neighboring cities
Since most people could not write or read this job was important.
What is a scrib?
One would travel in this direction to get to Egypt from Mesopotamia.
What is southwest?
Sumer had different types of musicians and craft-workers. They represent this characteristic.
What is the arts?
First the Sumerians conquered Mesopotamia, Then the Akkadians conquered Mesopotamia ,Next the ______________ conquered Mesopotamia, Finally the ______________ conquered Mesopotamia.
What is Summerians and babylonians?