Vocabulary
A craftsperson
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Artisan
Scribe
Mesopotamia means "land between the _____"
Rivers
Writing (Written Language)
Slaves
A person who makes money by selling goods
Merchant
The way a civilization is organized
Social Structure
Why was the Fertile Crescent a good place to settle?
Rivers, fertile soil, water supply, mild weather
True or False: The Sumerians did NOT believe that the gods supported or cared about the King.
King Hammurabi was a ruler of which Mesopotamian Empire?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Babylon
A means of supplying land with water
Irrigation
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Levee
Which two rivers are located in the Fertile Crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
A WHEEL is an example of which characteristic of civilization?
Technology
The oldest piece of writing/story from Mesopotamia
Epic of Gilgamesh
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
City-State
An arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil.
Fertile Crescent
What was the PROBLEM that inspired Sumerians to create an irrigation system?
Too much or too little water; flooding
A ZIGGURAT is an example of which characteristic of civilization?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Religion
Cuneiform is a type of writing with _______-shaped character
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top
Ziggurat
What was the SOLUTION to the following problem in Ancient Sumer: Silt clogging the canals.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Different city-states had to work together to maintain the irrigation system.
Farmers, fishers, merchants, artisans
Describe ONE of the laws under Hammurabi's Code.
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