Inventions
The Mesopotamian invention used to travel the water (be specific)
What is sailboats?
The name for the fertile area between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The year that people first settled in Ancient Mesopotamia
What is 7,000 B.C.?
An excess of something
What is a surplus?
The name of Ms. Barnes' cat
What is August?
The occupation that the Mesopotamians were so good at they didn't need more of
What are farmers?
The large body of water to the west of Mesopotamia
What is the Caribbean Sea?
The current country that exists where Mesopotamia was
What is Iraq?
What is the land between/land of the rivers
The pizza restaurant that Ms. Barnes worked at to pay for college
What is MOD Pizza?
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
What is irrigation?
The names of the first 3 Sumerian city-states
What are Ur, Uruk, and Eridu?
During the spring harvest, melting snow caused the rivers to do this
What is flood?
A city that governs itself independently
What is a city state?
Where Ms. Barnes went to college?
What is the University of Colorado and/or The Evergreen State College?
The name for the particles of soil that Mesopotamians used to grow crops
What is silt?
The temple in each city-state
What is a ziggurat?
The population range of the city-states
What is 5,000-20,000 people?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
What sport did Ms. Barnes play her 1st year of high school?
What is basketball?
The method used to dry the bricks used to construct buildings
What is sun drying?
The definition of the word ziggurat in the ancient Akkadian language
What city state was taken over by Cyrus the Great, King of Persia?
What is Babylon
Moving or lying in the same direction and the same distance apart
What is parallel?
The last thing on Ms. Barnes' timeline she showed the class
What is started to teach History at South Shore?