Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics and Economy
Social Structure
100
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
100
Who is the most important person in Mesopotamian religion
What is the priest
100
Name four achievements of the Mesopotamians.
What are the arch, cuneiform, wheel, irrigation, plow...
100
How did Mesopotamians organize their homes and towns
What is city-state
100
Who was at the bottom of the social pyramid
What are slaves
200
Name the source of the Tigris River
What are the Zagros Mountains
200
Who is Ishtar
What is the goddess of love and war
200
Name three inventions that came from the wheel
What are the potter's wheel, plow, wheelbarrow, and chariot
200
Name the king who came up with written laws
What is Hammurabi
200
Name the title of the first recorded story
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh
300
Why did people move from the Zagros Mountains to the river plains
What is food shortage
300
Mesopotamians were polytheistic. What does this mean
What is belief in many gods
300
What did people do when they did not have a cylinder seal
What is using their fingernail
300
How were workers sometimes paid in ancient Mesopotamia
What is grain
300
Who was higher in the social scale, merchants or farmers
What are merchants
400
Name four ways Mesopotamians controlled water
What are levee, shaduf, dam, canal, ditch
400
Name two uses of the ziggurat
What are leaving offerings, the priest talking to the gods, and scribe school (edubba)
400
Name two types of art in Mesopotamia
What are pottery, mosaics, jewelry
400
What did Mesopotamians trade for goods they needed
What is pottery
400
Name three things a woman could do in ancient Mesopotamia
What is own property, run a business, go the market, attend school...
500
Irrigation systems needed to be maintained and cleared of this natural substance
What is silt
500
In Mesopotamia, priests could also be _______________
What is doctors
500
Which Mesopotamian empire invented writing
What is Sumer
500
Name three city-states
What are Babylon, Ur, Uruk, Nippur
500
Spell the stone used in Mesopotamian jewelry and art
What is lapis lazuli
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