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Mesopotamians developed a _________ which helped them predict floods.
calendar
What did Mesopotamians make out of gold?
Jewlery
What are the three cities in Mesopotamia?
Ur
Uruk
Eridu
many gods
polytheism
____________ people migrated from place to place in search of food.
Nomadic
cuneiform
The ____________ were the first people to develop a system of writing
Sumerians
What word means having more than enough?
Surplus
an ancient religious structure that resembles a pyramid
Ziggurat
the cultivation or production of plants and animals for human use
agriculture
What was the first recorded story. It deals with many of the universal themes and ideas still found in literature today
The Epic of Gilgamesh
stories about gods and heroes, and prayers to the gods
Epics
These ancient calendars were lunar, or based on the cycle of the _______
moon
The social classes of Mesopotamian society can be illustrated in a_______ _________ ,with the king at the top of the pyramid and farmers and enslaved people at the bottom.
social pyramid
a mixture of rock and soil that is carried by water.
Silt
The _______ and the plow made farming easier.
Hammurabi created a code of ______
law.
_____were made of iron and were pulled by oxen
plows
__________ is the artificial application of water to land.
irrigation
taming wild plants and animals is known as _____________________
domestication
___________________ was a Babylonian king who consolidated and annotated the laws into a single code
Someone who writes during this time would be known as a ______
scribe
A person who provides materials, products, or services to a buyer, usually in exchange for money
Merchant
Mesopotamia is located between which two rivers?
Euphrates and Tigris
means buying and selling goods and services, especially when many people are involved
commerce