Geography
The location of Mesopotamia.
What is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These powerful men were the first rulers or Mesopotamian and later advised the kings.
Who are priests?
city-state
What is an independent area ruled by a king?
Temple located in the middle of the city.
What is a ziggurat?
A contribution by the Mesopotamians that made it easier for people to travel by land.
What is they developed the Wheel?
One factor that helped Sumerians farm successfully.
What is fertile soil, irrigation projects, ox driven plows?
This group of workers traveled to far away places to make trades.
Who are merchants?
Having extra, or more than you need.
What is surplus?
This person was considered the head of the household.
Who is the husband/father?
A Mesopotamian invention that was made from mixing copper and tin.
What is bronze?
The natural resource that was used for most building projects.
What is mud/clay?
Professional writers.
Who were scribes?
Belief in more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
A common food made from wheat and eaten at all meals.
What is bread?
A wall built along the river to hold back flood waters.
What is a levee?
Modern day country where Mesopotamia was once located.
What is Iraq?
This group could not attend school, and instead cared for the home and kids.
Who are women?
A system that brings water to dry land.
What is an irrigation?
How people in Mesopotamia explained natural events such as floods, earthquakes, or sunrises.
What is the gods.
A farm tool used to help plant seeds more quickly.
What is a plow?
Most commonly grown crop in Mesopotamia.
What is grain (wheat, barley, etc)?
Why a triangle is a good shape to represent the social structure of Mesopotamia.
What is the smaller spaces at the top show less people had power, and larger spaces at the bottom show more people had little or no power?
To trade goods without the use of money.
What is barter?
A system of writing used to communicate and adorn temples.
What is cuneiform?
The two math concepts that were developed by Mesopotamians to help with trade and scheduling.
What is counting and time?