Mesopotamia
a group of people living and working together to create an organized society
What is Civilization?
More than is needed.
What is a surplus?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
city with its own government, religion and laws
What is a city-state?
Before they were farmers, people were these.
What are hunters and gatherers?
What is a fertile crescent?
land that was good for crops to grow shaped like a cresent
Reason people settled and begin communities in the Fertile Crescent?
What is excellent land for growing crops?
A story about an angry, lonely king who becomes friends with a wild man sent from the gods.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Fish, rich topsoil, clay for building and reeds to make boats
What are the benefits of the river?
fine sand and clay that left by flooded rivers
What is silt?
The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of what?
What is the gods were angry with them?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
What is civilization?
What are the names of one of the rivers Mesopotamia is between
Tigris and Euphrates
What types of people would be found in the highest level of Mesopotamian society?
What are Kings?
Taming and using animals as livestock.
What is domestication?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamian writing
What is cuneiform?
People found in the lowest class of Mesopotamian society
What is enslaved people?
Sweeping away people, animals and houses and the fact that floods were not predictable.
What are the hardships of living near the river?
Preparing the land for farming.
What is cultivation?
Supply water to crops
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia is Greek for:
What is Land Between Two Rivers?
What scribes wrote on in Mesopotamia
What is wet clay?
Created the first known empire?
Who is Sargon?
Several countries or territories controlled by one power
What is an empire?