Mesopotamia Geography
This translates to "the land between rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
Period of little rainfall.
What is a drought?
People who moved place to place looking for animals to hunt and things to eat.
What are hunter-gatherers?
What is agriculture?
The team LSU will be playing against on Saturday.
What is Southern University?
The earliest two civilizations/empires in Mesopotamia.
What are Sumer and Akkad?
The flat land bordering a river.
What is a floodplain?
The act of moving from one place to settle in another. Hunter-gatherers did this often.
What is migration?
To grow and tame wild animals.
What is domesticate?
The name of the mascot at LSU.
Who is Mike the Tiger?
The grandest Sumerian city-state.
What is Ur?
Having little rainfall and warm temperatures.
What is a semiarid climate?
Artwork found in the caves in France. This was the earliest form of writing discovered.
What are the Lascaux Caves?
An amount of a good that is in excess of what is needed for survival.
What is a surplus?
The reason why hunter-gathers migrated (most likely).
The two rivers in the Mesopotamia region.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The fine soil deposited by floodwaters.
What is silt?
A person who moves from place to place.
What is a nomad?
The two cities Jericho and Catal Huyuk were examples of these.
What are early villages/settlements?
The ways people apply knowledge and tools to meet their needs.
What is technology?
What is a ziggurat?
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Tools in the Paleolithic were made of this material.
What is stone?
Tools in the Neolithic period were made of this material.
What is metal (copper)?
The earliest form of writing in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?