Geography
The _____ and ______ are the name of the two rivers in Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris Euphrates?
A belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
In Sumer this type of person ruled the land.
What is a king?
The rich and fertile soil that helped grow crops is called ________.
What is silt?
Material used for all buildings and structures.
What are bricks?
The word Mesopotamia actually means this.
What is The Land Between Two Rivers?
This is the name of the place where Sumerians worship their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
A self-governing city that governs surrounding villages is called ____.
What is a city-state?
The Mesopotamians dug _____ and _____ to help control floodwaters.
What are canals and lakes?
One of the most important types of inventions. Started to be used for pottery and then for carts and chariots.
What is the wheel?
This is the country where Mesopotamia is mostly located.
What is Iraq?
These people were right below the king. They had great power and performed religious rituals.
What is a priest?
These were usually boys who could write and kept records.
What is a scribe?
When there is an extra amount of food grown that is able to be stored, it is called____.
What is surplus?
The writing system in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This is the body of water the two rivers dump into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The name of an ancient early Sumerian mythical hero.
What is Gilgamesh?
The king of Babylon in Mesopotamia who had strict laws.
Apple, pomegranate and date _______ were grown along the rivers.
What are trees?
The study of stars and planets.
What is astronomy?
Mesopotamia is located on this continent
What is Asia?
Believed their kings were not these.
What are gods?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is an example of Hammurabi's _________.
What is Code of Laws?
What is irrigation?
To keep track of time and when the floods would come, Mesopotamians invented this.
What is a calendar?