Geography
What are the two main rivers located in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
The people in Mesopotamia believed in more than one god. What is the belief in many gods called?
Polytheism
The people living in Mesopotamia invented a round object that we use everyday. What is this invention?
wheel
Mesopotamia started off with a government ruled by a king. What type of government is ruled by a king or queen?
monarchy
The people from Mesopotamia developed a writing system for keeping records. What was this writing system called?
cuneiform
What was the arced shaped area of fertile farmland located in Mesopotamia?
Fertile Crescent
What is a synonym for deities?
gods
The people of Mesopotamia used an artificial way to water crops. What is this called?
irrigation
What type of government has many different peoples under one ruler?
empire
Which group of people in the social structure was important for the economy of Mesopotamia? They built several projects and worked on the irrigation.
slaves
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into what large body of water?
Persian Gulf
What did the people in Mesopotamia believe their gods had control over?
Everything
The people of Mesopotamia created a way to move products quickly down rivers by using the wind. What was this invention called?
sailboat
Where was the regional location of the world's first empire?
Mesopotamia
What type of economy did the people of Mesopotamia have?
agricultural
Mesopotamia is protected by what natural barrier to its east?
Zagros Mountains
The people of Mesopotamia believed the gods had control of the weather, the seas, the crops, the sun and stars. These are all part of what?
The people of Mesopotamia created a way to turn over the dirt to increase the planting area. What was this object called?
plow
The government of Mesopotamia was the first place to post their laws for all to see. What was the name of these laws?
Code of Hammurabi
The people of Sumer developed a type of political unit that consisted of the city, the surrounding farmland with its own government. What type of unit is this?
city-state
What large body of water is located north of Mesopotamia?
Black Sea
The people in Mesopotamia would pray to their gods to see who should rule them and if they should go to battle. This proves the Mesopotamians believed the gods had control of_________.
everyday life
Irrigation, silt, metallurgy, production of tools, use of animal and slave labor, and inventions such as the wheel, sail, and plow all led to advancements in _______________?
agriculture
What was so important about the Code of Hammurabi?
The laws were written down and posted for all to see. Now people would know the penalty for breaking a law before the law was broken
The people of Mesopotamia developed the first piece of literature known as an epic. This epic gives us insight into the beliefs of the people of Mesopotamia. What was the name of the oldest written epic?
Epic of Gilgamesh