Specialized Workers
This job has been done for thousands of years before our Mesopotamians, and was invented during the Neolithic Age.
What is farming?
This system was used to manage water for the city-state. They allowed farmers to water their crops and managed flooding from the rivers.
What is irrigation?
The name of ancient Mesopotamian writing.
What is cuneiform?
Name the famous code of laws created for the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Laws?
Mesopotamian cities were built near these two important rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
These workers organized society, performed rituals and acted as judges.
Who are priests?
This invention was one of the most important ones, and you do it every single day in school.
What is the invention of writing?
This job required you to write for the government and keep written records of events.
What is a scribe?
This is the name of one of the ancient temples Mesopotamians would go to to pray to their gods.
What is the Ziggurat?
The first known civilizations in Mesopotamia developed in this region, whose name means “land between rivers.”
What is the fertile crescent?
These workers made goods like pottery and clothing to be traded.
What are artisans?
Mesopotamians built their houses and cities out of this material.
What are mud bricks?
Early Mesopotamians used this to write on instead of paper.
What are clay tablets?
The king was believed to have this important, divine power.
What was the messenger of the gods?
Cities were centers for this economic activity.
What is trade?
Mesopotamian workers used this material to make tools and weapons, marking an important advancement in specialized work.
What is bronze?
Other than the sun, this technology was used to dry clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform.
What is a kiln?
Scribes used this special tool to inscribe clay tablets.
Mesopotamians believed in many gods, meaning they practiced this type of religion.
What is polytheism?
This system of government allowed city-states to become wealthy, standalone civilizations. City states sometimes went to war with one another.
What is independently self governed?
This system had kings and priests at the top, artisans and merchants in the middle, farmers and slaves at the bottom.
What is social hierarchy?
This Mesopotamian invention, used to track time, was divided into 12 parts, influencing modern timekeeping.
What is a calendar?
Over time, cuneiform evolved from these simple pictures that represent ideas into a more complex writing system.
What are pictographs?
Mesopotamians believed their gods controlled every aspect of life, including this unpredictable natural event that could bring both destruction and fertile soil.
What are floods?
This city state was ruled by King Hammurabi, who was known for his Code of Laws.
What is Babylon?