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Grab Bag
100
This is the number of gods that they worshipped.
What is 7
100
Mesopotamia is between which 2 rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
100
Name 3 jobs you could have if you lived in Mesopotamia with the class it goes with.
What is scribe, priest, blacksmith, farmer, etc.
100
What was invented to help make pottery?
What is pottery wheel
100
This was what the towns were called in Mesopotamia
What is city-states
200
This is what people had to do to keep the gods happy.
What is pray to them, provide offerings (food, sacrifices, etc.)
200
What 2 problem did the Mesopotamians have with farming?
What is flooding What is not enough water
200
What was your job if you inscribed symbols on clay tablets to keep records?
What is scribe
200
What 2 inventions made farming easier?
What is the wheel, plow, irrigation system
200
Why were walls build around each city-state
What is for protection
300
These people had the job of making sure the god was always happy. They were the only people allowed up where the god lived in the ziggurat
What are priests
300
What did the Mesopotamians do to prevent their crops from flooding or being dried out?
What is build canals and levees (irrigation system).
300
Who ruled the city-state and who helped him?
What is a king and priests.
300
This was the first written language.
What is cuneiform
300
You were what time of person if you lived in two-story home.
What is rich/ important.
400
All of the gods that they worshipped were named after what?
What is nature
400
What word do we use to explain the soil in Mesopotamia and why it was good for farming (the word means good)?
What is fertile
400
What are the 2 ways you could become a slave?
What is get captured by another city state and not pay taxes.
400
Sumerians became very good at what skill.
What is Metalwork
400
Give me an example of Hammurabi's Code, "an eye for an eye."
thief- cut off hand
500
The buildings where the god lived were called this
ziggurat
500
What country is now part of what used to me Mesopotamia
What is Iraq.
500
What types of things would you use to pay taxes?
What is animals or products.
500
This building was full of offices at the bottom and the god was said to live at the top.
What is ziggurat
500
The first city-state/ civilization in Mesopotamia was called this.
What is Sumer
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