Lists & Facts
wheat, barley, melons, apples, figs, dates, and grapes
The Ancient Mesopotamians believed that ______ was the reason for good or bad crops and weather?
The gods
Ancient Mesopotamia is located in which modern day countries?
Syria & Iraq
False
Silt
A mixture of rock and soil that is carried by water
Name the two main types of livestock grown in Mesopotamia
Goats, sheep, and other livestock
Who supposedly built the wall that surrounds Uruk?
The King of Gilgamesh
These two major Rivers were found in Ancient Mesopotamia and are to thank for it's agricultural success:
Tigris & Euphrates
The earliest known road in Mesopotamia was about 15,000 miles long.
False.
It was 1,500 miles long, stretching throughout the civilization.
Barter System
Name 3 of the specialized jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia discussed in your TechBook:
Merchants, potters, artists, musicians, builders, farmers
What does the name Mesopotamia mean?
"The land between the rivers"
The silt from the rivers in Mesopotamia flattened out the landscape, resulting in the land being what natural landscape form?
Plateau
Ancient Mesopotamians eventually began trading with civilizations as far away as Ancient Greece.
True
Domestication
the process of breeding animals so they can be used by people
Name the 3 major cities of Ancient Mesopotamia
Eridu, Ur, Uruk
Who is believed to have founded the city of Eridu?
The gods Enki and Eridu
These Mountains bordered Mesopotamia to the North and the East.
The Taurus & Zagros Mtns.
The city of Uruk had the largest population of any ancient city in Mesopotamia. Around 800,000 people lived in the city.
True - it had the largest population.
False - there were 80,000 people.
Cultivation
Has to do with cultivating the land, or preparing it for crops
When was Ancient Mesopotamia established?
Around 3,500 BCE
Who did the Ancient Mesopotamians believed invented or gifted them with the seeder plow?
200 Bonus: What is the seeder plow?
They believed it was a gift from the god Enil and the image of the seeder plow could be seen in the stars.
The seeder plow was an agricultural innovation that dug the soil so farmers could drop seeds into the ground after it had been furrowed.
Describe how the Springtime floods impacted agriculture in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Each spring the Tigris & Euphrates would fill with melted snow from the mountains and overflow
The flooding brought fertile soil, but the climate was very hot & dry and often had little to no rainfall of extended amounts of time
Irrigation systems helped them to capture and save this water
The City of Ur's geographical placement was important because being close to the Persian Gulf allowed Ur to control the flow of trade in the area.
True
Irrigation
the supply of water to land or crops to help with growth, typically though channels