Mesopotamia 1
How do you pronounce "Mesopotamia"?
MESS OH PO TA ME AH
What is a Ziggurat?
A large temple
Did hunter-gatherers have a hierarchy?
No, they shared everything evenly.
What is social hierarchy?
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
Longer writing piece (stories, poems, or songs) that were used to teach the people of Mesopotamia "life lessons?"
Epics
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers
Why did people settle and begin communities in this area?
Excellent land for growing crops
Mesopotamians believed in many gods. True or False?
True
What was the idea of Hammurabi's code?
An eye for an eye
What is Mr. McQueen's term for when a society was divided into classes with kings and priests at the top and slaves at the bottom.
Social Class Pyramid
What is polytheism?
believing in more than one god; belief in many gods
Who were the people in Mesopotamia that maintained order and ruled Mesopotamia in each individual city-state?
Kings
What are the names of the two rivers Mesopotamia is between
Tigris and Euphrates
Who were the people that worked on farms and ziggurats to help build Mesopotamia into a "powerhouse" of a civilization?
Slaves
What did the people of Mesopotamia use instead of medicine?
Plants and herbs
What were Mesopotamians experts in? What two things did they learn or create to help us today in our schools...
Math, Astronomy
What is Mesopotamian writing called?
Cuneiform
What type of people would be found in the lowest level of a stratified society?
Labourers and slaves
Independent political unit that includes a city and its surrounding territory
City-State
Name at least 3 Inventions created in Mesopotamia
Law System
Wheel
Cuneiform - Writing System
Farming - Agriculture
Bronze
Sailboats
Hammurabi ruled __________ and created the Hammurabi's _________, a set of laws.
Babylon, Code
These people communicated with the gods and were important in society?
Priests
What happened in Mesopotamia very often that helped grow crops?
Floods
What was Cuneiform usually written on?
Clay or stone
A rumored Sumerian hero (an epic was made about him) that saved the people after the Gods created a massive flood because the people were too loud?
Gilgamesh