Mesopotamia
TECHNOLOGY
What are new inventions?
SURPLUS
What is EXTRA?
Lived in total FREEDOM
Who were NOMADS?
Hierarchy
What is a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked - one above the other - according to status or authority.
To water crops
What is IRRIGATION?
The earliest, best place to grow crops in the ancient world
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Why did people settle and begin communities in the Fertile Crescent?
Excellent land for growing crops
Priests and King
What are NOBLES?
Trade
Another way to gain RESOURCES
Government
Which aspect of civilization makes laws?
Floods and natural disasters
What are signs from the gods?
Mesopotamia is known as the "Cradle of __________"
Civilization
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
The two rivers of MESOPOTAMIA
KINGS
Who were at the top of society's hierarchy?
Five ASPECTS
What are Government, Religion, System of Writing, Social Class, and Specialized Labor?
The largest building in most Sumerian cities was a huge mud brick temple called?
What is a ziggurat?
Mesopotamian writing
What is Cuneiform?
Laborers
Which workers were the at the lowest level of a stratified society?
Five empires
What are Persia, Babylonia, the Medes, Phoenicia, and the Hittites?
Prior to Mesopotamia
What are NOMADS?
Ancient writer
What is a SCRIBE?
The land between two rivers
What does MESOPOTAMIA mean?
Wet clay
What did SCRIBES write on?
Gilgamesh
Who was KING of URUK?
BOYLE
Who is the coolest TEACHER at EDMUNDS?