Environment & Resources
This key environmental factor led humans to settle near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
This process supplies water to crops and helped Mesopotamian farming succeed.
What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Trade was possible because farmers produced more food than they needed.
What is surprlus?
The Sumerian writing system was called this.
What is cuneiform?
Mesopotamia is often called this because of its rich farmland and fertile soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Two main crops grown in Mesopotamia were these.
What are wheat and barley?
Ancient Mesopotamia was located in this continent.
What is Asia?
Rivers helped trade by providing these.
Mesopotamians used these flat pieces of clay to record laws, trade, stories, and daily events using cuneiform writing.
What are clay tablets?
These two rivers flooded irregularly and could be dangerous to people.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Frequent floods made farming possible because they did this to the soil.
What is made the soil fertile/enriched the soil?
This region included about a dozen small cities around 3000 B.C.
What is Sumer?
Merchants were part of this system that organized people into different roles.
What is the social structure/social pyramid?
The king created one of the first written laws codes
Who is King Hammurabi?
Flooding helped farmers by leaving behind this nutrient-rich material on farmland.
Mesopotamians could trade because they had extra crops, also known as ________
What is a surplus?
Mesopotamia means "land between" these.
What are rivers?
This group was NOT treated equally under Hammurabi's Laws.
What are lower classes/slaves?
The code of Hammurabi is important because it did this.
What is established written laws?
The summer climate of Mesopotamia was mostly described as this.
What is hot and dry?
This reliable food supply is one key feature that helps define a civilization.
What is agriculture/farming?
A walled city with its own government and culture was called this.
What is a city-state?
True or False: Hammurabi's Laws treated all classes fairly.
What is false?
Name one Mesopotamian invention still used today.
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What are writing, laws, irrigation, the wheel, calendars...?