Vocabulary
Why Were River Valleys Important?
What Was Life Like in Sumer?
Gods and Rulers
Advance in Writing, Literature, Science and Math/Sargon and Hammurabi
100
Complex societies that have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system are called __________________.
What is a civilization
100
The first civilizations arose in river valleys because _________________________.
What is river valleys had good farming conditions, fertile soil, could feed a lot of people, allowed for transportation and trade.
100
The word that means the land between the rivers in the Greek language is ____________________________.
What is Mesopotamia
100
The Sumerians believed in many gods. Each was thought to have a power over these two things ___________________, and __________________.
What is natural forces or human activities.
100
These men were record keepers that held honored positions in society, often going on to be judges and political leaders.
What is scribes.
200
When farmers build dams and channels to control seasonal floods and build walls, waterways and ditches to bring water to the fields it is called _________________.
What is irrigation.
200
The need for organization and someone to make plans and decisions about matters of common concern made people in Mesopotamia form ______________________.
What is governments
200
Mesopotamia lay in the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent, a curving land that extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. In modern day this country is called.
What is Iraq (southern Iraq)
200
At the top of a Ziggurat was a shrine, or special place of worship. Only ______________and ________________could enter.
What is priests and priestesses
200
The Sumerians wrote the oldest known epic poem, which was the story of a king and his best friend travelling and doing good deeds. However, when his friend died the king was looking for eternal life. He soon found out that only the gods held this power. This poem was called __________________.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh.
300
Hundreds of wedge shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets with sharp-ended reeds is called ________________.
What is cuneiform
300
Leaders of the government in Mesopotamia took charge of these four things _______________, _____________, ____________, ________________.
What is food supplies, building projects, making laws, and assembling armies.
300
Mesopotamia's climate is very ____________and ________.
What is hot and dry.
300
The Sumerians tried hard to please the gods, so they built these grand temples.
What are ziggurats.
300
Sumerians developed many mathematical ideas. The Sumerians used the number system based on 60 to develop these three things.
What is the 360 degree circle, the 60 second minute, and the 60 minute hour.
400
skilled workers who make metal products, cloth or pottery are called _________________________.
Who are artisans.
400
People in river valleys had their basic needs taken care of and had fewer worries, so they had more time to think about other things. So they developed ________________, _____________, _______________, ______________.
What is religion, arts, writings and calendars.
400
The rivers in Mesopotamia often ____________leaving behind rich ___________soil.
What is flooded, fertile.
400
The word Ziggurat means __________________________________________.
What is mountain of god or hill of heaven.
400
Hammurabi's fathers name was ___________________. Hammurabi became the king of __________________. He wanted to control the _________________River. His enemy's name was __________________. He defeated his enemy by using _____________.
What is Sinmuballit, Babylon, Euphrates, Rim-Sin of Larsa, water (building a dam and then releasing a flood, or withholding water needed for drinking and crops).
500
A group of many different lands under one ruler is called ________________________.
What is an empire.
500
People held different positions in society depending on what work they did, and how much wealth or power they had. This is called ______________________.
What are class divisions.
500
While Sumerian kings lived in ________________, ordinary people lived in ____________.
What is large palaces, mud brick houses.
500
Sargon was the leader of the __________________, He conquered ______________________, and he set up the world's first __________________. It lasted ___________years before falling to invaders.
What is Akkadians, all of Mesopotamia, empire, 200 years.
500
Sumerians invented the following 4 items that we still use today. ____________, _______________,_______________, ________________.
What is wagon wheels, sailboats, calendars and plows.
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