Geography
the two rivers that Mesopotamia was located between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Irrigation canals/systems were created because of this:
flooding in the plains
City states had their own of these:
This type of artisan designed temples and ziggurats
What are architects?
a craftperson
What is an artisan
when rivers flooded, this was left behind, creating rich and fertile soil.
What is silt?
Created around city-states so that intruders could not get in.
What are moats, or brick walls?
Material that was used to build the protected walls of a city-state:
What are sun-dried bricks?
Decorated with precious gems and with carvings made of horns.
What is a lyre?
a person who makes money by selling goods
What is a merchant?
main reason the Mesopotamians left the Zagros Mountains
What is food shortage?
What are irrigation canals?
A society that has developed arts, sciences and organization:
What is a civilization?
discovery that took place in 3500 BCE, changed transportation and trading of goods.
What is the wheel?
a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure
What is a civilization?
What is Iraq?
Sledges were used to transport goods and products. They often got stuck in mud and were hard to control. This invention took its place:
What is the wheel? What is the cart?
these specific individuals lived near ziggurats
added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings.
What are arches?
a symbol that stands for an object
What is pictograph?
the main reason that flooding occurred in the spring was because of this:
the mountain's snow melting and going down into the rivers.
Priests and Kings used this as an excuse to make sure citizens obeyed them.
faced away from crowded streets and into courtyards
What are Sumerian homes?
The writing that was around before cuneiform. This writing consisted of only images.
What is pictograph?
writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
What is cuneiform?