The Wheel
What was the Wheel used for?
For traveling
What was the first written text called?
Cuneiform
How many months are there in a year?
How many cities made up Mesopotamia?
12 major city-state
What were the board games made of?
Clay
How did the wheel make life easier?
Early men used the wheel to move heavy objects
What were Mesopotamian writers called?
Scribes
Who invented time?
Ancient Egyptians
When did cities develop in Mesopotamia?
In the late fourth millennium BC
How did the Mesopotamians use board games?
The board games had pieces to them that either were thrown or moved around the board
When was the wheel invented in Mesopotamia?
It was invented in the 4th millennium BC
What tools did Mesopotamian use for writing?
A reed stylus
How was time invented?
They divided a day into 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. Than they divided theses into 60-minuted hours and 60-second minutes.
what was the first city in mesopotamia?
Eridu
What was the reason for the invention of board games?
What materials did Mesopotamia use for wheels?
Wood
What culture gave us the alphabet we used today?
Phoenicians
Who made time in Mesopotamia?
The Sumerians
Why did cities first appear in Mesopotamia?
Agriculture is believed to be a pre-requisite for cities, which help preserve surplus production and create economies of scale
what was the first board game made in Mesopotamia?
The Royal Game of Ur
What did Mesopotamians do before the wheel?
They draged their goods on flat- bottomed carts called sledges
The oldest written set of laws were written by?
Hammurabi
What did the ancient Mesopotamians invent to measure time?
The sexagesimal system
How did Mesopotamia make cities?
Sumer developed a system of artificial irrigation that made the land so fertile that it was able to feed several city-states with an ever-growing population
Why were games important in the past?
They were used as cultural and social bonding events, as a teaching tool.