Vocabulary
An area of land located between and around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The person who regulated family life.
Who are the men?
What is the wheel?
This often happened in the spring to the rivers and washed away crops and villages.
What is a flood?
What is Mesopotamia?
A temple where Sumerians believed gods and goddesses ruled the city.
What is a Ziggurat?
The social class that is considered the ruling family or contained the high priests.
What is the highest class?
The process that Sumerians developed to allow water from the rivers to flow to their crops.
What is irrigation?
This often happened to crops during the summer time in Mesopotamia and left little rainfall.
An independent, self-governing communities that included a city and surrounding farm land.
What is a City-State?
A wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets... a writing system for Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
The social class that contained the farmers that belonged to the priests or kings.
What is the lowest class?
Sumerians studied the sky and recorded the paths of the planets and ______________.
What are stars?
Sumerians believed ____________ controlled specific natural forces like the sun and the rain.
Who are gods?
An epic poem from Mesopotamia time that describes the life of a legendary king.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Worshipping multiple gods
What is polytheistic?
The social class that contains the merchants and artisans.
What is the middle class?
Sumerians developed a number system based on 6...which led to dividing this object into 360 degrees.
What is a circle?
The position of the king is passed down to this person.
Who is the oldest son?
A marketplace that is located in the city-state.
What is a Bazaar?
A person who is a wanderer.
What is a nomad?
The group of people that Sumerians used to pay off debts or were captured during the war.
Who are slaves?
Sumerians discovered this substance, which is a mixture of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
A place where ideas, customs, religious beliefs, and technologies spread.
What is cultural diffusion?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?