Fertile Crescent Geography
What is a fertile crescent?
What is crescent shaped land that was good for farming?
Mesopotamia is Greek for
What is Land Between Two Rivers?
Cuneiform
What is Mesopotamian writing?
Polytheism
What is the belief in many gods?
Before they were farmers, people were these.
What are hunters and gatherers?
Also acceptable: What are nomads?
Reason people settled and begin communities in the Fertile Crescent?
What is the land was good for farming?
City with its own government, religion and laws
What is city-state?
Bazaar
What is a marketplace?
Only ones who could communicate with the gods?
What are priests?
Taming and using animals as livestock.
What is domsetication?
Fine sand and clay left by flooded rivers
What is silt?
Tigris or Euphrates
What is the name of one of the rivers in Mesopotamia?
Person found in the highest level of Mesopotamian society.
What is king?
Also acceptable is chief priest.
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
Preparing the land for farming.
What is cultivation?
A shortage of water for a long time.
What is drought?
Modern day country in Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
Also acceptable are Jordan, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon.
People found in the lowest class of Mesopotamian society
What is enslaved people?
The cause of floods and other natural disasters.
What is the gods were angry?
Large mass of land; there are 7 of them.
What is a continent?
Supply water to crops
What is irrigation?
First civilization in Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
Spread of ideas, customs, religious beliefs, & technologies.
What is cultural diffusion?
An
Who is highest god?
a group of people living and working together to create an organized society.
What is civilization?