Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia means
What is the land between two rivers
Cuneiform is written on
what is a clay tablet
A Mesopotamian temple to worship
What is a Zigguart
What is a hierarchy?
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
These rocks clogged the canals causing more problems and more time cleaning them out.
What is Silt
The fertile crescent?
what is the land that was good for crops to grow
The importance of Cuneiform
What is the first ever written language
The way in which people worship and celebrate their gods.
What is Religion
The principle of Hammurabi's code
an eye for an eye
A person who wrote
Sumerians invented this wheel-based tool pulled by animals to farm
What is a plow?
Mesopotamia is home to this first city state
What is Sumer
The invention that allows for easier transportation
What is the wheel
The person at the top of the Social Structure pyramid
The king who is responsible for creating the earliest codes of law.
what is Hammurabi
This word means “a group of people who share a culture.”
What is civilization
This large body of water is south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Who is the Persian Gulf
type of people would be found in the lowest level of a stratified society?
who are slaves
This modern-day country contains much of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq
the two ways people controlled water
What are dams and canals
The two rivers bordering Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
what is an empire
What did the people of Mesopotamia believe caused illnesses and disease, and crop failure?
what is angry gods
the economy of Mesopotamia
What is trade
These were cities that ruled themselves, like Ur and Uruk.
What are city-states