Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economy/Politics continued
Social Classes
Vocabulary
100

What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia?



Tigris and Euphrates

100

Who is Enlil?

The god of air, wind, and storms.

100

What invention was created and attached to wagons or carts and later turned in to a potter's _______. 


Wheel 

100

The first people to settle down in Mesopotamia and form city-states were the _____________.

a. Sumerians

b. Assyrians

c. Chaldeans

d. Akkadians

a. Sumerians

100

What does monarch mean?

a. king

b. a horse drawn cart

c. a sword

a king

100

Who was at the top?

kings/gods

100

What is a poem that was written about a hero called?

a. journey

b. epic

c. fable

b. epic

200

What is the Fertile Crescent? A large _____of rich fertile _______. (two words.)


arc

farmland

200

Who is Enki


Enki was the god of water,  wisdom, intellect, and magic. He is said to have shaped the world.

200

What is this Sumerian invention that broke through the hard clay to help plant seeds and crops.

plow

200

This legendary king of Uruk  and went on adventures with his friend Enkidu. They killed a demon.

a. Gilgamesh

b. Hammurabi

c. Sargon

Gilgamesh

200

What is a series of territories, kingdoms or city-states under one ruler.

a. empire

b. city-state

c. rural

d. urban

a. empire

200

Where did slaves fall?

at the bottom
200

What is a horse drawn cart used in battle called? ______

chariot

300

Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means?


between the rivers.

300

Who performs religious task to please the gods? 

a. priest

b. slaves

c. farmers

d. kings

a. priest

300

What is the first writing system which used wedged-shaped symbols called?

cuneiform

300

King of Babylon that is known for creating the 282 code of laws that were written down. Ex: An eye for an eye

Hammurabi's Code

300

What word means city?

a. rural

b. urban

urban

300

Who were in the lower class?

a. peasants and farmers

b. priests and nobles

c. crafts people, scribes, artisans and merchants.

a. peasants and farmers

300

What is the division of society by rank or class?

a. division of labor

b. social hierarchy

b. social hierarchy

400

What continent is Mesopotamia located in?


Southwest Asia

400

Who is Nanna (sometimes called Sin) the god of?

The moon.

400

What is the place to store water called?

a. basin

b. bath tub

c. canal

b basin

400

Who is Sargon? Fill in the facts below:

a. He created the world's first ________ by conquering all of Mesopotamia and the city-states.


empire

arrows

Akkad

Akkadians

400

What word means countryside?

a. rural

b. urban

rural

400

Who were in the middle class?

a. peasants and farmers

b. priests and nobles

c. crafts people, scribes, artisans and merchants.

c. crafts people, scribes, artisans and merchants.

400

What are special jobs?

a. division of labor

b. social hierarchy

a. division of labor

500

What were the 2 big problem with the rivers? 

a. too much water = _________

b. too little water = __________


floods 

droughts

500

Who is Utu the god of?

The sun.

500

What is a large pyramid shaped temple in Sumer?

Ziggurat

500


 He made his capital Akkad and the empire was known as the _____________ Empire.

a. Sumerian

b. Akkadian

c. Uruk

Akkadian

500

What is a city and all the countryside around it called?

a. city-state

b. empire

a. city-state

500

What are artisans or crafts people examples?

a. pottery maker, jewelry maker, scribe, weaver

b. ditch or canal digger

c. a god

a. pottery maker, jewelry maker, scribe, weaver

500

What is a professional writer?

scribe

600

What is the system of supplying water to an area of dry land?

a. irrigation

b. canal

c. basin


irrigation

600

What word means belief in many gods? 

a. Polytheism

b. monotheism


polytheism


600

What is a human made water way?

a. canal

b. irrigation

c. basin

a canal

600

What does this law mean?

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” 

a. it means that the person will have equal punishment that was done to their victim.

b. It means they take their eyes and teeth

c. It means that the person will lose an eye or a tooth but only one.

a.

600

The Phoenician were sailors that traded on the Mediterranean sea. They traded purple dyed fabric.

True 

False


True

600

Which social class/group is the most important? Why?

a.King

b.priest

c. crafters, artisans and merchants

d. Farmers/peasants

farmers and peasants because they grow the food which allows for more jobs to be created and those people don't have to worry about hunting and gathering food to survive. They can trade their items for food.

600

What is surplus?

a. extra amount usually food

b. a lack of food

c. a lack of water


a. extra amount usually food.

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