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What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between two rivers
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What was the saying/phrase Ms. Neel taught you to remember the social hierarchy of Mesopotamia?
Kids Play Sports Like Soccer
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What are ziggurats?
Pyramid shaped temples built tall to honor the gods
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What was the first religion of the people of Mesopotamia?
Polytheistic - belief in many gods
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What was the name of the rich fertile soil?
Silt
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What were the two rivers Mesopotamia was in between?
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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What did the people of Mesopotamia created this to divide people into classes or orders?
Social Hierarchy or Social Order
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What is cuneiform?
A form of writing that consists of shapes and lines produced by using a wedge-shaped instrument
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What was the first monotheistic religion?
Judaism
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What country is Mesopotamia today?
Iraq
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What continent is Mesopotamia located on?
Asia
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Why did Mesopotamia create a writing system?
To keep business records
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What did the invention of the wheel help with?
The use of carts and wagons
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People who practice Judaism believe the sacred writings are contained where?
Torah
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Because off irrigation and improved farming/agricultural techniques, the people of Mesopotamia were able to farm less and have what type of jobs?
Specialized jobs or division of labor
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What was the main reason people came to Mesopotamia?
People came for the fertile soil and the flood deposits.
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What were the two things a person's social class or order were based on?
Wealth and occupation
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What was the code or laws of Mesopotamia? Why is it so important?
Hammurabi's Code and because some of the ideas still exist in our laws today
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Who is the founder of Judaism and "Father of the Hebrews?"
Abraham
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Why is Mesopotamia called the Fertile Crescent?
It is shaped like a crescent and it has fertile soil (silt)
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How did the people of Mesopotamia control the floods?
They created irrigation techniques
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What is the social hierarchy of Mesopotamia?
King, Priests, Specialized merchants/craftsmen/traders, Laborers/farmers, Slaves
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Why did trade/bartering start? Where did it grow/thrive? What spread along the trade routes?
It started because of a surplus food production. It grew along rivers and bodies of water. The Phoenician alphabet spread along trade routes.
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What religion believes in an afterlife?
Judaism
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A city-state's ____ decided how much countryside or land it controlled.
Military strength
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