Economy
it was a common form of trade in Mesopotamia. Instead of using money, people would exchange goods with each other.
What is bartering?
A city and the land and villages surrounding it, forming an independent region.
What is a city-state?
The name of the type of writing in Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
An area with rich soil and the place where the first civilizations were born.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A temple made to honor the gods, and to show off the wealth of a city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
What is a Merchant?
What is a King?
The first object used to write on.
What are Clay Tablets?
A complex system of canals built to help control the flow of water.
What is irrigation?
It is the oldest story ever, revolving around a demigod King of Babylon
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Small objects inserted into balls of clay as a way to calculate
What are tokens?
The first ever written laws. It is where the saying 'an eye for an eye' came from.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
What is a Scribe?
Two rivers that played a big role in allowing civilizations to thrive in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Another word for God or Goddess.
What is Diety?
People often captured after a war, forced to work for free in terrible conditions.
What is a slave?
The classification of groups of people who make up a society, ranging from the most to the least powerful.
What is Social Hierarchy?
Record keeping, coordination of farming, surplus management.
What are ways writing helped manage Mesopotamian civilization?
The name of a Mesopotamian City-State
What are Sumer, Ur, Uruk, Babylon, Etc?
She is the Mesopotamian Goddess of love and war
Who is Ishtar?