Geography
What are the names of the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?
The Euphrates and Tigris rivers
Which group of people lived in Mesopotamia for the longest?
The Sumerians.
What is an epic?
A poem about a hero.
What does it mean to have a surplus of food?
To have a lot of, or extra food.
What is agriculture?
farming
What is one problem that farmers in Mesopotamia had with the rivers? How did they solve it?
Various answers.
Who broke the peace between the Sumerians and Akkadians? Why?
Sargon because he wanted more power.
Why is Mesopotamia no longer in the period of prehistory?
Because they invented the first system of writing and prehistory means before writing.
The Babylonians worshiped many gods. Is this a monotheistic or polytheistic society?
A polytheistic society.
What is due on Monday? Are these things for points or for extra credit?
Your Vocab Sheet and Study Guide. The Vocab Sheet is for points and the study guide is for extra credit.
What is one reason that a civilization was able to form in Mesopotamia?
Various answers.
Which group invented an alphabet?
The Phoenicians.
What is the first writing system called and why was it invented?
Cuneiform and for business.
What is irrigation?
What are dams?
What are canals?
Irrigation is a system of watering and canals and dams are ways that you can deal with water.
Were people in Mesopotamia hunter-gatherers? Why or why not?
What is no they were not because they stayed in one place and farmed?
Why are the rivers important to Mesopotamia?
What is because it provided them with water for farming, daily life, and brought silt that made the farmland more fertile?
Which group of people took over the largest area of land?
Who are the Persians?
Is cuneiform an alphabet? Why or why not?
What is cuneiform is not an alphabet because it doesn't represent individual letters?
What is a division of labor?
Everyone has their own specific job or task.
How is the standardization of currency beneficial?
What is because it makes it easier to buy and sell things if you are using the same money?
Why is it called the Fertile Crescent?
What is because it has fertile farmland and because it is shaped like a crescent?
Why were the people that Cyrus the Great conquered less likely to rebel?
What is because he let them keep their customs?
What is the difference between a settlement and a city or civilization?
What are structure and rules that could be provided by laws and government?
What do you think the social hierarchy in Babylonia looked like based on Hammurabi's Code?
What is men at the top, then women, then enslaved people?
What can we learn about Babylonia from Hammurabi's Code? How do you know that?
Any answer that makes a claim and provides a piece of evidence.