Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia 1
Mesopotamia 2
Mesopotamia 3
Mesopotamia 4
100

a group of people living and working together to create an organized society

What is Civilization?

100

More than is needed.

What is a surplus?

100

The belief in many gods

What is polytheism?

100

city with its own government, religion and laws

What is a city-state?

100

Before they were farmers, people were these. 

What are hunters and gatherers?

200

What is a fertile crescent?

land that was good for crops to grow shaped like a cresent

200

Reason people settled and begin communities in the Fertile Crescent?

What is excellent land for growing crops?

200

A story about an angry, lonely king who becomes friends with a wild man sent from the gods.

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

200

Fish, rich topsoil, clay for building and reeds to make boats

What are the benefits of the river?

200

fine sand and clay that left by flooded rivers

What is silt?

300

The people of Sumer thought that floods and natural disasters were signs of what? 

What is the gods were angry with them?

300

Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"

What is civilization?

300

What are the names of one of the  rivers Mesopotamia is between

Tigris and Euphrates

300

What types of people would be found in the highest level of Mesopotamian society? 

What are Kings?

300

Taming and using animals as livestock. 

What is domestication?

400

The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple called?

What is a ziggurat? 

400

 Mesopotamian writing 

What is cuneiform? 

400

People found in the lowest class of Mesopotamian society

What is enslaved people?

400

Sweeping away people, animals and houses and the fact that floods were not predictable.

What are the hardships of living near the river?

400

Preparing the land for farming.

What is cultivation?

500

Supply water to crops

What is irrigation?

500

Mesopotamia is Greek for:

What is Land Between Two Rivers?

500

What scribes wrote on in Mesopotamia

What is wet clay?

500

Created the first known empire?

Who is Sargon?

500

Several countries or territories controlled by one power

What is an empire?

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