Geography
The land between two rivers
What does Mesopotamia mean?
When people started to specialize in certain jobs, these were created.
What are social classes?
This is the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This is the first written language the Sumerians wrote on clay tablets with a reed stylus.
What is cuneiform?
What is trading?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
He was at the top of the social structure.
What is the king?
All gods were responsible for a part of this.
What is daily life or nature (ex. sun, harvest, rain)?
These would predict nature and create farming seasons.
What are calendars?
These people held one of the most important jobs. They wrote books or other important documents by hand and were some of the earliest teachers and writers.
Who are scribes?
The area Mesopotamia is located in.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Social classes were very ___ because children had to stay in the same jobs as their parents.
What is very strict?
These were located at the highest and most central part of the city.
What are ziggurats?
These were invented to allow for quicker and easier transportation.
What is the wheel?
All taxes go to the king to pay for this group of people.
Who is the army?
What is silt?
The king for each city-state received his power from this person.
Who are the gods?
Ziggurats had these on the sides to allow the gods to come down to Earth to provide more protection.
What are steps?
These were invented to break up soil when planting.
What is the plow?
Taxes paid for these to be done in the city.
What are improvements?
People created these to control the flood waters.
What are levees, dikes, dams, canals, and ditches?
The people paid these to the government on almost everything.
What are taxes?
They were in charge of keeping the Gods and Goddesses happy.
Who are priests?
These were the first set of laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
These were other jobs the Sumerians held.
What is a potter, fisherman, or trader?