Geography
This body of water marks the western end of the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Ur, Eridu, and Uruk were each famous examples of this kind of self-governing Mesopotamian community.
What is a city-state?
Canals, levees, ditches, and channels were all part of this system Mesopotamians used to bring water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
The Fertile Crescent stretches all the way to this gulf in the southeast.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This southern region of Mesopotamia was home to some of the earliest city-states.
What is Sumer?
The shape of the one the earliest inventions of the Sumerians.
What is an arc?
Floodwaters from the Tigris and Euphrates left behind this fertile material that made farming possible.
What is silt (rich soil)?
These leaders controlled armies, managed irrigation, and were considered chosen by the gods.
Who were kings?
Since wood and stone were scarce, most buildings in Mesopotamia were made from bricks shaped out of this.
What is mud?
Most of ancient Mesopotamia is located in this modern country.
What is Iraq?
These two building materials were scarce in Mesopotamia, forcing people to rely on mud bricks instead.
What are wood and stone?
Because Mesopotamian society had a hierarchy, these people had the least freedom and the fewest rights.
Who were enslaved people?
Mesopotamia’s climate can be described with this term, meaning hot, dry, and receiving little rainfall.
What is semi-arid?
Mesopotamia is considered this kind of society because it had organized government, jobs, religion, and writing.
What is a complex society?
This term describes a society organized into different social levels, where some groups have more power than others.
What is a heiarchy?