Geography/ Land
What are the 2 rivers in Ancient Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers
How did they get more resources?
By trading
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Beer
Did the people of mesopotamia think that humans serve gods
YES
With no natural barriers for protection, a Sumerian village was nearly defenseless.
For defense, they built city walls with mud bricks.
What is mesopotamia's climate like?
It's dry
What did irrigation systems do?
To cultivate more land and to grow more crops
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Mathamatics
What is the iconic symbol of Mesopotamian art and architecture
Ziggurat
Unpredictable flooding combined with a period of little or no rain. The land sometimes became almost a desert.
To provide water, they dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their fields and allowed them to produce a surplus of crops.
Today where is mesopotamia located?
Turkey/Southern Iran/Kuwait
Why is Mesopotamia called the cradle of civilization
Because some of the most influential early city-states and empires first emerged there
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Board games
WHO were the Mesopotamian people like
Ancient Egyptians
The natural resources of Sumer were limited. Building materials and other necessary items were scarce.
Sumerians traded their grain, cloth, and crafted tools with the peoples of the mountains and the desert. In exchange, they received raw materials such as stone, wood, and metal
What is another name for Mesopotamia?
Fertile Cresent
Why would people settled in Mesopotamia?
Because of the agriculture and fertile land.
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Writing
Who was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father
Nebuchadnezzar II
Attackers came...
The individual towns decided to come together to form city states.
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between rivers
Who are some people/Civilizations living in Mesopotamia
Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian
I was created by the mesopotamia and without it you cant do anything.What am I?
Time
When was kingship was established.
2600BCE (it will be accepted if it is 350 more or higher)
The canal got clogged with a dirt called silt. The water stopped going to the fields.
The government created a tax called burden. It was a labor tax and men had to dig out the silt to pay the tax