Mesopotamia 1
Cuneiform was written on what
What is clay tablets?
Before civilization people did this for food
What is hunting and gathering?
Form of writing created in ancient Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
Mesopotamia was located in what modern day country
What is Iraq?
The Neolithic sickle was used for what
What is cutting crops?
A place where people live together, have specific jobs, and live under a set of rules and laws
What is civilization?
What continent was Mesopotamia in
What is Asia?
DAILY DOUBLE: What crop use to be grown all over Ewa?
What is Sugar cane?
Mesopotamia was known as the "cradle of ______"
What is civilization
Hunter gatherers were in what age
What is the Paleolithic age?
farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products is known as
What is agriculture
Who had more permanent shelter, hunter gatherers or farmers
What is farmers?
The two major rivers that ran through Mesopotamia
What is the Euphrates and Tigris River?
Ziggurats were built very tall for this reason
What is for gods to visit?
Neolithic tool used for clear fields
What is the plow?
Neolithic invention used to bring a water source to crops
What is irrigation?
Using wild animals for farming purposes, resources, and food
What is domestication?
Why did people settle and start communities in Mesopotamia?
What is it had fertile land?
Farming began in what age
What is the Neolithic age?
Why did Neolithic people trade?
What is to obtain items they did not have?
Built to worship the gods in ancient Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
This Babylonian king created a code of laws
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Ancient Sumerians used these to keep track of wealth and trades
What is trading tokens?
What is disease?