Geography
Mesopotamia means "land between these two rivers."
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Sumerians believed in many gods. Their religion was therefore described as this.
What is polytheistic?
The Sumerians developed this system of writing by pressing wedge-shaped marks into clay.
What is cuneiform?
The person most likely to have the greatest amount of political power.
Who is the king?
Two geographic landforms that might encourage the settlement of societies.
What are plains and rivers?
The ability to move water from rivers to farmland.
What is irrigation?
A large religious structure used for worship.
What is a ziggurat?
This invention made it easier to transport heavy objects and helped improve farming, pottery, and transportation.
What is the wheel?
Lowest social group in Mesopotamia.
Who are the slaves?
On November 1st there are 300 bags of Halloween candy left. The demand for Halloween candy is _________. The price for the candy will__________.
What is low and decrease?
It allowed some people to have jobs other than farming and a specialization of labor.
What is food surplus?
The type of government Sumerian city-states generally had.
What is a monarchy?
This invention allowed people to keep records and communicate information about trade, laws, taxes, government, and supplies.
What is writing?
Famous for creating the first written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Saudi Arabia has these two types of government because it is led by a king without elections and the constitution is the Qur'an, a holy book.
What are absolute monarchy and theocracy?
The area of rich farmland extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea where Mesopotamia began.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
As Sumerian cities grew, they needed governments to create laws, organize workers, collect resources, and do this.
What is protect/defend the city?
Mesopotamia needed to do this in order to get natural resources that it lacked.
What is trade?
This was the first set of laws that established specific consequences for specific actions.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This level of industry describes selling the product or service.
What is tertiary?
Mesopotamia was able to grow into cities because of these two reasons.
What are food surpluses and specialization of labor?
Kings would use this to legitimize their rule and explain why their laws was just.
What is religion or the gods?
What is strengthen?
A textbook describing the laws in Hammurabi's Code is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
An economy where people use the resources available to produce what they need or enough extra to exchange by using the barter system.
What is traditional economy?