Vocab
What is Irrigation System?
The first system of writing
What is Cuneiform?
The rivers that Mesopotamia is between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What the land became after the rivers flooded, helped with farming
What is fertile?
Hammurabi's Code was based on this idea.
What is eye for an eye?
A large territory ruled by a single ruler
What is empire?
This invention made it possible for armies to use chariots
What is the wheel?
The fine particles of clay and sand deposited by the rivers.
What is silt?
The reason for Sumerians building walls around their city-states.
What is protection from other city-states attacking
Bonus (+50): why did the city-states fight?
The D1 league that Lehigh won.
What is the Patriot League?
the government in Mesopotamia and the city-states.
What is theocracy?
Bonus (+50): define it.
A religious temple in the center of a city-state surrounded by a wall.
What is a ziggurat?
What are the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Persian Gulf?
This empire had Hammurabi's Code
What is Babylonian?
This 3D artwork represents on one side peace and the other side war.
What is the Standard of Ur?
Having more than what is needed; Having less than what is needed
What is surplus and scarce?
Ancient Sumerians invented irrigation systems and plows. They helped to provide this output from farms.
What is a steady supply of food?
The larger territory which Mesopotamia is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Bonus (+50): What modern-day country is Mesopotamia now?
This empire was led by King Sargon and was the first empire.
What is Akkadian?
The number of games played between Lehigh and Lafayette.
What is 162?
The spread of beliefs, traditions, items, and ideas from one society to another
What is cultural diffusion?
Bonus (+50): how is it facilitated?
This invention enabled the people of Mesopotamia to build elaborate buildings, plan irrigation systems, create calendars, and study astronomy.
What is mathematics?
Bonus (+50): Which empire was the first to use math?
This area of Mesopotamia had the first city-states, droughts, extreme heat, and unpredictable floods.
What is Southern Mesopotamia or Sumer?
King Sargon united Mesopotamia through this.
What is military strategy?
Where Ms. Tashlik studied abroad.
What is Madrid, Spain?