Geography
What two rivers run through Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
What term describes the belief in many gods?
What is polytheism?
What were the three main social classes?
What is upper, middle and lower class?
What were the three main pillars of the Mesopotamian economy?
What are agriculture, trade, and craftsmanship?
What was the writing system the Mesopotamians created called?
Cuneiform
What did the surplus of crops lead to in Mesopotamia?
What is the growth of cities and complex societies?
What did the Mesopotamians build to honor their gods?
What type of government was common in Mesopotamia?
What is monarchy?
What materials did Mesopotamians trade for?
What are wood, stone, and other goods?
True or False: The Mesopotamians developed a number system based on 60
What is True?
What did the rivers provide routes for the Mesopotamians?
What are trade and transportation?
What did the Mesopotamians do in the temples?
What is performed rituals and sacrifices?
What was one role of the king or queen in Mesopotamia?
What is to provide security for citizens?
What currency did the Mesopotamians use for trade?
What are silver and gold coins?
Mesopotamians developed a _____ system that was based on the lunar and solar cycle.
What is calendar?
What type of land allowed Mesopotamians to be agriculturally successful?
What is fertile land?
True or False: The people of Sumer generally believed in only one god.
What is false?
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
What is one of the earliest and most important examples of written laws?
What does manufacturing mean?
What is making things?
Why was using cuneiform and clay so important?
What was it was the first known system of writing that allowed for written record?
How did the rivers contribute to raising livestock in Mesopotamia?
What is by providing a steady supply of water?
What was one reason for performing rituals in Mesopotamian culture?
What is to please the gods and goddesses?
What is they could own property, run businesses, and hold government positions?
True or False: Mesopotamians were the first people to use money
What is true?
How did Mesopotamians help other cultures develop faster?
What is they shared their developments with other cultures who then adapted them?