Vocabulary 2
What is Agriculture?
The process of planting crops and domesticating plants and animals.
Between which two rivers is Mesopotamia located?
Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
What is a society with cities, government and culture.
Civilization
How many years ago did humans leave Africa.
100,000 years ago.
How do you call a person trained to write and keep records?
A scribe
Why is the fertile crescent called the fertile crescent?
It is called the Fertile Crescent because it is a piece of fertile land that is in a shape of a crescent.
What is the meaning of Trade?
The process of exchanging goods and services
What does irrigation mean?
The meaning of dynasties.
Families of rulers who pass leadership from generations to generations.
What factors influenced the development of Mesopotamia?
Natural walls/defense(mountains, desert, oceans), fertile land which means they can plant crops and get food.
What is Sumer?
One of the first civilizations in Mesopotamia known for its cities and writing.
What animals did humans domesticate and what did they domesticate them for?
Cows, goats, and sheep and they were domesticated for their milk, meat and skin.
What is a ziggurat and what is it used for?
A big stepped building used in mesopotamia to worship
An old place between the tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Mesopotamia
Iraq
What is the Hammurabi's code and what king wrote it?
One of the first written laws created by a Babylonian king.
What is a type of writing made by pressing shapes into clay?
Cuneiform
What factors influenced the development of Mesopotamia?
Fertile land = more food = more people
natural walls(mountains, seas, rivers)protected them from others.