Geography
The two rivers that flow through the fertile crescent.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The name for believing in multiple gods.
What is Polytheism?
The round device invented by Mesopotamians that as made to move carts forward.
What is the Wheel?
The ruler of Mesopotamia or the top of the social structure.
What is a King?
The system of making deals to get something in return.
What is trade and barder?
The modern-day location of Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
The most important (and often the largest) structure in a city-state.
What is a Ziggurat?
What is a sailboat?
The harsh laws of the land that were written on stone and placed in the city center so that all people can read them.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Framers form of money.
What is livestock and crops?
The desert that is located to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Syrian Desert?
The natural disasters the people of Mesopotamia blamed the gods for.
What are flooding and drought?
A stone tablet used to keep track of trade. The first example of writing in the world.
What is a Cuneiform?
A large area with people that have its own rules and laws.
What is a City-State?
________ was how the economy ran?
What is trading?
The mineral that flows through the rivers from the mountains and fertilizes the land.
What is Silt?
A device used for entertainment where two people play against the spirit of the dead.
What is board games?
What are Slaves?
When a civilization has more than enough food.
What is a surplus?
The names of the 5 main city-states of mesopotamia.
What is Ur, Kish, Nippur, Umma, and Lagash? (Eridu)
The priests responsibilities.
The system used to transport water to crops from the rivers.
What is irrigation?
_______'s job was to use _________ to gain items from all over the world.
What is Merchants? What is Trade?
The different jobs in the mesopotamian economy?
What are builders, farmers, Government workers, military, merchants, priests, metal workers, and crafters?