Traits of Civilizations
Keeping track of food, taxes, and religious ceremonies are all examples of this.
Record Keeping
This is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
Silt
Take care of children.
This special job involved lots of writing.
Scribe
This king created the first set of written laws.
Hammurabi
Farmers, builders, and scribes are all examples of ____ workers.
Specialized
Mesopotamia is named after what two land features?
Tigres and Euphrates rivers
False
What is one use of record keeping?
Examples: farming, laws, religious ceremonies, dates, etc.
Name two resources used by the Phoenicians when trading with other cultures.
Purple dye from shellfish and cedar wood
The plow used to make farming easier is an example of this.
True or False: Rivers provide access to both food and transportation.
True
Women were sometimes _____ in the temples.
Priestesses
Sumerian math revolved around the number ___.
Sixty
This ancient culture of fierce fighters used chariots and iron weapons.
Assyrians
Babylon is an example of this.
Advanced Cities
What is a surplus and why is it so important?
Having more food than you need; it allowed for the division of labor.
Ziggurat
True or False: Sumerians invented complex sewer systems.
True
Nebuchadnezzar built this when he reconstructed Babylon.
Hanging Gardens
Religion and Government are examples of this.
Complex institutions
Canals were built to control what type of natural event?
Flooding
Slaves
What was the first system of writing called?
Cuneiform
The alphabet we used today is based on the ____ alphabet.
Phoenician