Geography
These are the three most important bodies of water in the area of the world we are now studying.
What are the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
This King was responsible for first written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This was the name of the people in ancient Mesopotamia who learned how to write.
Who were scribes?
These are people who wander around looking for food; they have no permanent home (before they became farmers, Mesopotamians were this).
What are nomads (hunter-gatherers)?
Greek word for "land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
This type of government is one where people believe the gods have given the priests all the power to rule.
What is a theocracy?
This was a temple where Sumerians believed gods and goddesses ruled the city.
What are ziggurats?
A system used to bring water from rivers to areas without water is called this.
What is irrigation?
This is a person who grows crops and raises animals for food (meat, milk or eggs).
What is a farmer?
These are the two major rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
A group of several city-states is called this.
What it is an empire?
Anything that solves a problem or makes a task easier to complete.
What is technology?
This invention was one of man-kind's greatest achievements.
What is the wheel?
Mesopotamian farmers built these to bring water from the rivers to their fields.
What are canals?
Mesopotamia was called this because of its shape and fertile soil.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
A person’s social classes or rank in Sumer depended on their wealth and this.
What is a person's occupation or job?
This is when people in a society are separated based on the amount of wealth & power they have.
What is a social class system?
This is the name for the wedge shaped writing of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Soil is said to be this if it contains nutrients needed for crops to grow.
What is fertile?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Sumerian society was organized in these which was made up of a city and surrounding lands.
What is a city-state?
This is a group of people living and working together in cities, divided into different classes, with a government, laws, a writing system, art, religion, an economy.
What is a civilization?
The Sumerian economy was based on this.
What was farming?
This was the first major civilization in Mesopotamia.
Who were the Sumerians?