First Farmers
A person who moves from place to place following food resources, often living in moveable homes.
What is a nomad?
The oldest town every discovered. (Hint: Located by the Dead Sea.)
What is Jericho?
The meaning of Mesopotamia in the Greek language
What is "the land between the rivers"?
The reason Sumerians invented writing
Cities that grew to control surrounding land and villages
What is a city-state?
A word meaning rich or good for farming
What is fertile?
An early town, located in Anatolia (present-day Turkey) that was home to artists and featured many-layered plaster walls
What is Çatal Höyük?
The southern part of Mesopotamia where a lot of "firsts" took place
What is Sumer?
Simple pictures that represented an object or idea
What are pictographs?
The system by which a town, city, or state is ruled
What is a government?
The area of land around modern-day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and neighbors where farming first began
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The type of animal archaeologists believe people in Çatal Höyük may have worshipped
What are bulls or cows?
The process of storing water and using it to water crops
What is irrigation?
The meaning of the cuneiform
What is "wedge-shaped"?
What is a lugal?
What is domestication?
Example of an activity that people in Çatal Höyük were able to do because of having food surpluses
(Answers vary) What is practice religion, create art, make pots, etc.
Its invention allowed for the easier creation of food storage bins
What is the potters wheel?
Two examples of early Sumerian pictographs
A large temple with a stepped design that was the center of Mesopotamian city-states
What is a ziggurat?
The three types of animals commonly domesticated in the Fertile Crescent
What are sheep, goats, and oxen?
Three artifacts discovered at Çatal Höyük
(3 of the following): Plaster walls, mural paintings of hunting scenes, food storage bins, cook stoves, ladder grooves, sculptures of female figures and bulls, etc.
What is Uruk?
One of the reasons why cuneiform is difficult to translate
(Answers may vary) What is the way it evolved over time from pictographs to symbols?
Three features of Mesopotamian city-states
(Answer vary) What are marketplaces, ziggurats, surrounding walls, ports, mud brick house, potter's workshops, etc.