Vocabulary
People
Places
Literature and Inventions
Miscellaneous
100
A rich in soil, curved section of land.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
100
This is a class of people that have jobs in arts and crafts. They make materials such as pottery, statues, and woven cloth.
What are artisans?
100
This is a region that is in the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The first form of writing was called this
What is cuneiform?
100
The first civilizations settled in this area. (Describe physical features)
What is between two rivers?
200
These are groups of people who have an organized society within a culture.
What are civilizations?
200
Priests left this each night in/by the ziggurats.
What is food for the Gods?
200
This is the reason ziggurats were built so tall.
Why is so they could be closer to the heavens?
200
The belief in more than one God is called this.
What is polytheism?
200
Using natural resources of dirt, water, and straw, Mesopotamians made these.
What are Mud Bricks?
300
This is a city with it's own form of government and traditions.
What are city-states?
300
This person is in charge of writing in Mesopotamian society.
What is a scribe?
300
This area includes all of Mesopotamia.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
300
This is also called the "God-given right to rule".
What is "Divine Kingship?"
300
This is a main theme of Gilgamesh.
What is No One Can Live Forever?
400
This is another name for "ruling family"
What is dynasty?
400
He is a legendary figure seeking immortality in a long, epic poem.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
These are the two rivers surrounding the Mesopotamian area.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
400
This invention allowed Mesopotamians to move water from the rivers to the farmland.
What is irrigation?
400
This is the reason The Epic of Gilgamesh was so important.
What is it was one of the first epics ever written down?
500
These are wedge-shaped symbols used for writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
He is the first empire-builder and founder of the Akkadian dynasty.
Who is Sargon?
500
One of these countries is NOT part of the Fertile Crescent. Iraq, Iran, Syrian, Peru.
What is Peru?
500
These were the social classes in Mesopotamia from highest to lowest?
What is King, Goverment officials and merchants, laborers and artisans, and slaves.
500
Name three inventions of the Mesopotamians
What is Writing, The Wheel, Irrigation, Farming, etc.
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